You can count Evan Bayh and his ilk in the DLC among that elite club.

War is glamorized in this country through our culture - it's the movies, the toys, the video games, the list goes on. And this message is reinforced in our education system.

Although this is another subject, I think Obama's move to reform our education system emphasizes the wrong message - it's not the length of the school day that should be modified, it is the content. Rather than glorifyiing the hard sciences, we need to relook at how we teach the humanities. We should be teaching history not just through the memorization of the 'facts' but through living the experiences of Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans and the imperialism within our own countries. If we truly paid reparations to the minorities that we have expended in the interest of the American Empire, (ala Germany paying reparations to Israel) we would be walking on the earth with a lighter footprint and a humbler demeanor.