The natural state of man

Someone recently asked me why it is that Bush seems hell bent on a course of perpetual war. Why do he and his buddies actually seem to thrive on it?

It occured to me, in answering the question, that its premise was wrong.

Bush and his neocon buddies don't want perpetual war. They just think that perpetual war is the natural state of Man. And any who resist this idea is either naive or in league with the enemy.