On the Fact that Journalist and Pro-War Propagandist, Walter Lippmann, Had Long Been an Enthusiastic Proponent for Conscription but When it Came to Serving His 27 Year-Old Self Up, the Fellow Was Able to Secure a Position In the War Department as an Assistant to Secretary Baker (Even Going as Far as to Concoct Some Cock-and-Bull Narrative About His Old Man Kicking) and so He Never Saw ANY Front Line Action - HOW CONVENIENT

So Lippmann was a precursor to the modern-day neocons (Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Libby, Kristol, Adelman, etc.), in other words.......Yep, history sure does repeat itself.