Living in a Dream World

All around maniac John Derbyshire reads of two marines being mugged and uses Heinlein's Starship Troopers as evidence that the military today is filled with sissies-boys or overly lawyered-up. Conservatives, it seems, are unable to find re-world examples for their desires and, consequently, rely on fantasies and dreamworlds, which explains their tax, job, military, and other policies.