When you realize it comes from someone who would rather collect from the government instead of doing work he considers beneath him, Comments such as this don't bother me since I worked regularly from the time I was 18 until I retired collecting UI only for two weeks in all that time...
That kind of comment from a lazy azz dumbbell pusher, (and if you delete pusher it sounds even better) is to be expected!
I think he's very young. Too young to have developed a comprehensive and coherent view of philosophy, economics, politics, and consciousness. He will learn new tricks with the experience of toil and failure.
Were they really in them to win them though?
That argument can be made, but the truth imo is that America has developed a political culture that prevents it from successfully waging war. The temptation is too great for the party out of power to use a war for partisan political advantage. The conduct of the Democratic Party during the Iraq War is a textbook example of successfully using a war initiated by Republicans as the springboard to electoral victory.