"Winning" is a misnomer.
Guns, tanks, bombs... all they do is add confusion and antagonize our enemies.
...damn! A bottle of wine and I'm quoting from Godzilla 1985!
But the sentiment remains: We've got to learn to live WITH terrorism because--as a technique--it'll always by with us.
A parable: To be more efficient, I moved a lot of my storage out to my car-park. Well, somebody stole my bicycle. Oh, and then they opened my car door and stole the radio. I eventually moved a mile away... to a house.
One day, I had my garage door open... and the door from my garage into the house. Somebody stole my wife's purse. I was home that day so I rode my (new) bicycle after them and demanded the purse back (straps hanging out of the box the kid was carrying).
Today, do I lock my doors?
...well, no.
That fact is: the United States really should have been big enough to take the 9-11-2001 hit... look how efficient the evacuation plan worked. Sixty-thousand people worked in the World Trade Center and three thousand died. Four planes where hijacked and they only had a 3/4 success rate.
And the administration has continued to stampede the citizens with fear and hate since then. As each becomes exhausted from the adrenalin... maybe they'll wake up to the manipulation that has occured.
--ventura county, ca
Posted by Darryl Pearce at April 9, 2004 09:05 PMWell, this Spengler guy is quite a nutcase, imho. Probably a Neo-Con in disguise, with that.
I mean, his rant about dying Europe is just laughable, his whole point being Judeo-Christian is great and Paganism is bad. As if the Barbarians that overran the Roman Empire were on the verge of extinction. They just disappeared because they merged in a bigger entity (France, Germany, Spain, ...). Not to mention he doesn't seem to understand much of modern-day Europe, particularly in a world where overpopulation may doom us all. But then, if he really understodd things with Europe he would've mentioned Arthur and Barbarossa's legends.