I want someone to explain to me how these people are supposed to be foreign policy/security party, when they don’t have a clue about much of anything that goes on in the world.
]]>It is hardly comforting that we are not the first great nation to be essentially seized by leaders bent on world domination. But with the alleged leadership’s thinking of the Fifties, threatening to use the weaponry of the Sixties, and confronting the state and nonstate actors of the Nineties and Naughties, the stakes for civilization may be a bit higher this time around.
]]>Jonathan Schell once wrote of mutually assured destruction (sorry, I can’t find the quote online, and I don’t own the book, so I’m paraphrasing) that when a man is standing on a window ledge 20 stories above the ground, threatening to jump, we don’t express relief that he hasn’t jumped yet, and we don’t praise ledges as safe places to stand. IMHO, that’s about right.
I was born in a MAD world; I had hoped to live out my life with a less MAD policy from our own leaders or those of the former Soviet states. The current group of nut-cases… theirs and ours… aren’t making matters easier.
OT, I saw via ellroon that there is now a third U.S. carrier group in the Persian Gulf. Again, my fears would be better assuaged if we had another Executive branch.
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