The lynch mob theory of war

From the comments at PeterDavid.net:

My point is that for whatever reason, the public is behind this war.
I personally think we’re lynching Negroes. A black man raped a white
girl and since we can’t find that black man, we’re going to ride into the outskirts of town and lynch a black man because you know how those people are and even if he claims he wasn’t involved in that rape, he must have been up to something and if you have any kind of problem with that, you’re obviously in favor of little girls getting raped.
I’d never looked at it in quite that way before, but unfortunately it
makes just too much sense to ignore. Can’t find Osama? Get Saddam. The
fact that the war is being run by the party of Trent Lott makes the
similarity just chilling.
Because lynch mobs always bring peace to an area, even if you have to flout the law to do it– especially if you have to serve a higher law. And the darkies never give us any problems after that.