Amazing Adam Smith Quotation

Glenn Grenwald ahs this gem from adam Smith about how the armchair warriors enjoy their little amusements.

In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies . . . .

They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war.

Its a good post in which he takes down the self-satisfying rationalizations of the die hard dead-enders of the Iraq War.