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Nothing. From the start of our nation and everywhere else it has been so. In Marxist Socialist countries there are the Power elite. And, nepotism rules everywhere. C'est la ball bounce.
As Morth Sahl said when Nixon ran vs. McGovern, the choice is usually between the lesser of two evils or among the evil of two lessers.
Obama will be reelected if enough conservatives shoot themselves in the foot and forget about Supreme and Federal Court appointments.OMG, can you imagine the damage Obama can do during the lame duck period if he does lose and what kind of a Carteresque ex-President he will be?
Because my 49'ers, whom I supported since their inception, failed to draft fellow Cal alumnus Aaron Rodgers, I have become a “cheesehead.”
People die for -isms no less than for religious faith, for in the end an -ism replaces/becomes a religion often manifested by “cult of the personality.”
A wag once told me one needs to know only two words in French, enfin and qua?.. If you mumble between them with a cigarette dangling from your lower lip, you will be understood. :-
We won the Iraq War when Saddam was captured and his sons kiled. We had no grand strategy in place for winning the peace. We had forgotten what happened after our relatively easy defeat of Spain in 1898 — the vicious Moro War in the Philippines over the next several years that took over 4,000 American lives and set us on a collision course with Japan who coveted the islands. Our first attempt at nation building eventually succeeded. I am not optimistic about Iraq.
Heat of battle is one thing, unintended collateral damage another.Obeying orders to commit cold-blooded sadism on and murder of non-combatant civilians of all ages and genders, especially on racial grounds, is inexcusable. I read and wish I could remember where that no German who disobeyed such orders was ever executed. The Eastern Europeans and Western collaborators who aided the Nazis in those crimes were all willing participants. "It shall not happen again" is a well voiced mantra. Huzzahs for those who continue to hunt and prosecute WWII war criminals.
Lea's books were required reading also for the British and German general staffs — but not in the USA. He also consulted on German and British maneuvers in 1910. Forgot to mention he kicked out of Stanford for agitiating on behalf of Chinese who wanted to end the Manchu Dynasty and have a republic. He was the only Caucasian present at the inauguration of Sun Yat Sen and earlier led a contingent of Chinese republicans with the international army that lifted the siege of Peking vs. the Boxers.
Thank you, I will, if and when. I used to purchase books from The Scholar's Bookshelf, but they went out of business. Many unfortunately were University pubs at excessively high prices. Others are now out of print. Alibris has some bargains though, both nonfiction and fiction. I have used JSTOR for my specific protagonist of the 9th century to great success.
