fought one yourself. right. and we joke about chickenhawks, but actually this is a real problem. men need to show their manhood. and arguably george w. bush had something to prove to the nation and to himself and to his father when he invaded iraq. i mean, you don t have to get too heavy into the psychobabble to see the draw, the lure of war. absolutely. eisenhower had won world war ii. he had conquered. he liberated europe. he didn t need it. teddy roosevelt s an interesting example. he got war out of his system by charging up san juan hill as a young man. he was the ultimate war lover. nobody loved war more than teddy roosevelt. he was almost completely crazy about it, but he got it out of his system by doing it himself. and when he became president, you know, he talked about speak softly but carry a big stick, the great white fleet and he believed in power, but he was not desperate to rush into a war because he had already proved