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2011-05-18 Terror Networks

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Posted by Frozen Al 2011-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 "...it's a crying shame the way war has been handled in the last few decades. I mean, let's look at it out in the open. Let's stop this pussyfootin' around. Can you tell me why the hell we've given up on the Germans? Can you? Those damn politicians in Washington have chalked them up on our side, and the wars ever since have been a national disgrace. Hell, look at history. The two best wars this country has fought were against the Jerries. Now I say, get the Krauts back on the other side of the fence where they belong, and let's return to the kind of enemy worth killing and the kind of war this whole country can support."
-- Uncle Victor, "Harold & Maude"

Posted by gromky 2011-05-18 01:36|| 2011-05-18 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 "America needs a great villain to overcome" - iff History is any measure, a villain worse than Osama,etal. will come along shortly during this 2011-2020/2025 time period. THE PROVERBIAL
"RIGHT BUTTONS" WERE NEVER EVAR! PUSHED, UNTIL NOW!?

Ask, + Ye shall receive.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-18 01:54|| 2011-05-18 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 You go to war with the enemy you have.

Posted by Grunter 2011-05-18 07:21|| 2011-05-18 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 You're loosing to the current enemy.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-18 08:09|| 2011-05-18 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Substitute Native American/Indian for terrorist and you get the feel of some writers of the late 1880-90s were musing about as they prepped America for the world stage leading to the Spanish-American War to be followed by the inevitable complications of becoming involved in the fratricidal European wars of the early 20th Century.

Again, and again, the military men have seen themselves hurled into war by ambitions, passions, and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potentials and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the wars they let loose. Aware that they may again be thrown by civilians into an unforeseen conflict, perhaps with a foe they have not envisaged, these realistic military men find themselves unable to do anything save demand all the men, guns, and supplies they can possibly wring from the civilians, in the hope that they may be prepared or half prepared for whatever may befall them. In so doing they inevitably find themselves associated with militaristic military men who demand all they can get merely for the sake of having it without reference to ends. -
Vagts, Alfred, History of Militarism, rev. 1959, Free Press, NY, pp 34.

We do not need to seek enemies or create them for that matter simply for some weird concept that boils down to 'that which does not destroy us, makes us stronger'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-18 08:31|| 2011-05-18 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Well I guess we still have our Domestic Enemies to fall back on.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-05-18 09:03|| 2011-05-18 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The enemy is already inside the gate.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-18 09:19|| 2011-05-18 09:19|| Front Page Top

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