Who apparently don’t know what the word “elite” means (as in Saddam’s “elite Republican Guard”). Or maybe it’s all just relative. Donald Sensing explains. Why do they do this? It can’t be simple cluelessness, because somehow, the cluelessness always ends up going in a certain direction.

David Blue also makes a good point in comments: that armies win battles, but people or nations win wars. And it’s very hard to win a war when half the people in the country don’t even really believe that we’re in one, and/or believe that their own government is the enemy.