When America and Israel started a new war on Saturday, they quickly succeeded in killing Iran’s supreme leader, the 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
This achievement prompted a burst of chest-thumping acclamation from a braying mob of war enthusiasts — those who Robert Graves, the World War I soldier and poet, memorably described as “the froth of the city.”
“The thoughtless and ignorant scum / Who hang out the bunting when war is let loose / And for victory bang on a drum,” Graves wrote, observing the euphoria of his countrymen who never…
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