George Will and the ruling class imperialists.(Insider Report)

It is obvious why, for the past three decades, George Will has occupied a top niche in the liberal-left Establishment media's stable of pseudo-conservatives: He is very adept at looking and sounding conservative while promoting liberal-left, internationalist programs. The bow-tied columnist and television commentator is one of the anointed neoconservative spokesmen whose job is selling domestic Big Government programs and international adventurism to Middle America.

Commenting on the escalating violence in Iraq, in an April 7 column entitled, "A War President's Job," Mr. Will avers: "[T]he first task of the occupation remains the first task of government--to establish a monopoly on violence...." America's Founding Fathers might beg to differ; they said nothing in our Constitution about establishing "a monopoly on violence." What they did say, in the Preamble to the Constitution, is that their intent was to "establish justice" and "establish this Constitution."

Will writes that "the (relatively) pretty phase of empire--the swift dispatch of an enemy army--is over. Regime change, occupation, nation-building--in a word, empire--is a bloody business. Now Americans must steel themselves for administering the violence necessary to disarm or defeat Iraq's urban ...