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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF
So you buy into the "Bad deal vs. WWIII" scenario? Okee Dokie. Bad deal =WWIII is more likely. By the way, RIP del63. Been away a while.
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i don't think it's a bad deal.
i do tire of the constant drum beats for war tho.
War is sweet to those who have no experience of it,
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.~Pindar
when watching the short series on WW1, and all that occurred in Europe that led up to that war, there was one common refrain...there'd not been war in a while in europe, so everyone had once again developed fanciful notions of a romantic war.
when war came, they just knew it wouldn't take long, that not much blood would be spilt, that it would be over by christmas.
funny, that's the same stuff said when the south seceded in 1861...one fellow waved his handkerchief, saying it would be able to clean up all the blood that would be shed.
you'd think with all our recent fighting, we'd be more apt to say 'no, let's try other strategy'. but some won't learn from mistakes made, they wish to repeat them...with others paying the price of course.
we are still in a war, our longest ever, with no end in sight. we have the single most expensive fighting force the world has ever seen, and can't end things in afganistan. it's a horrible joke.