In Brightest Day?

I don’t have much to add to this post, but Matt Yglesias’ use of Green Lantern to illustrate certain conservative visions of foreign policy deserves a read. The emphasis on willpower is especially dangerous, I think, because it’s one of the things that leads to any criticism of the government or the military policy being seen as something that makes the country, the military, and the men and women actually doing the fighting all weaker.