American Digest has a great bit posted.

What’s going on is a massive, subconscious desire on the part of millions of our fellow Americans to ensure that America loses — not only in Iraq, but in the wider First Terrorist War. But why?

The French have an idiomatic phrase nostalgie pour la boue which means, roughly, “yearning for the mud.” Nostalgie pour la boue is a compulsion that comes over people when they have, for complex reasons, a need to immerse themselves in self-degradation. This is a specialty of the French culture.

RTWT.

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