Amy’s Reviews > Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power > Status Update

"When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there."

"Reagan had taken the remarkable posture that even just public debate on issues of war and peace was detrimental to our national security."

"Grenada was a tougher mission to back, but Tip O'Neill was also convinced that partisanship ended at the water's edge in wartime. Even in a war against a tiny, poorly armed island military, he was not going to criticize the president while American troops were in a fight."