The scouts for the Sunday talk shows might have found it difficult to recruit skeptics, but they didn't have any trouble enlisting
fuglemen to blow the trumpets of imperial advance--Tom Brokaw, impatiently wanting to know why the Army wasn't deploying ground troops, "in division-size force" somewhere south of Kabul; Dick Morris on Fox News, urging the Pentagon to boldly extend Civilization's War Against Barbarism by occupying Libya and invading Iraq.