Well, no. But the mainstream media reduces war to sport, by way of relying on “experts”, dependent on the sport being played as the given (after all, you cannot be an “expert” on a sport, if your theme is that perhaps the sport shouldn’t be played, can you)?
As Glenn Greenwald so aptly put it,
“Urge all the wars you want for any reason — be a wild-eyed disciple of Bill Kristol and Norm Podhoretz and Newt Gingrich — and you will be deemed Very Serious. But question the fundamental premises of America’s right to rule the world through the use of military force, challenge whether we ought to be starting one war after the next and constantly intervening even when our national security is not even arguably at risk, and be dismissed away by our war hungry Foreign Policy Establishment as an unserious pacifist.”
Tom Engelhardt draws the sardonic analogy—if war is sport, then Iraqis are cyclists.
—The Bikemessenger