Gingrich: "War is grand and oh so helpful"

Newt Gingrich thinks we should be intervening in Lebanon, because this could help republicans in November.

This brings to mind the idea that launching a World War over the assasination of an Archduke was a grand plan. The thinking in imperial Vienna in 1914 was, just to recap, that beating down the Serbian government over the assassination of the Austrian heir-apparent by a Serbian nationalist would provide a political benefit to the struggling Austro-Hungarian empire.

Thankfully, nobody cares what Gingrich has to say; but where is the outrage that a prominent republican is calling for this country to join a war for the political benefit of one party? Has the whole world gone insane? Is it really necessary to paint the nightmare scenario that a wider Middle East war would be?