Warfare-statists are horrified over what President Trump told Mrs. La David Johnson, the grieving widow of a U.S. soldier who was recently killed in Niger. Trump said to Mrs. Johnson, “Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.”

Trump’s statement reminds me of what Herbert Spencer wrote back in 1902 in an article entitled “Patriotism”:

Some years ago I gave expression to my own feeling — anti-patriotic feeling, it will doubtless … Continue reading Trump’s Horrible Truth to the Soldier’s Widow