If ye break faith with us who die ... we shall not sleep

Christopher Hitchens relays a poignant diatribe to false prophets and snake oil salesmen.

... the majority of American dead have still been civilians living in America, and those who prattle on about the sacrifice of children seem not to have read about Beslan, or thought about it, or broken with the lazy old American [ed. or Canadian] habit that supposes that war is always "over there."