| more fractured thoughts....what say you -- do you think tom brokaw is just trying to up his book sales? are you saying our news anchors have no credibility? this truly is a disturbing universe. as for all of us being better off had hitler been successful, that might depend on your point of view. i think pat buchanan harbors such a historical perspective. now theres a comforting ally. im not trying to be flip but it sure would take alot of convincing to prove we would be better off. but im sure you would agree.
i was having similiar thoughts about everyone going through a little boot camp between highschool and college. was trying to tie it together with our gun control debate. it would seem to make sense that if you are exposed to war then would be less inclined to engage in it. sort of works like a vaccine. the only problem is will that mutate and create virulent strains of warmongers and highly trained criminals? obviously hard to say. as for "our boys" fighting for less than altruistic reasons, conscription has a way of doing that to you. would you prefer executive outcomes? lastly, i viewed the john mccain phenomena partly as some boomer guilt remover over their dissing the gi joes when they returned from vietnam. i dont know to what extent that dissing is a myth but since when do the losers get parades anyway? im still working on the ww1 v ww2 question. my first instinct is to say that the us was far more engaged in ww2 and lost more lives. the red baron likely never heard of pearl harbor. and the cargo of the enola gay has cast an even longer shadow than lenins tomb.
oh yeah. heres the esteemed nola scientist which the memorial is to honor along with those dday warriors. i guess im glad they are honoring a scientist/engineer as a war hero. how often does that happen? but do we need more memorials to the dead? whats that tomb of the unknown soldier for? i guess i should be happy people are taking an interest in history but i was much more interested in the cause and effect of history than i was in the heroism and vagaries of the battlefield. it just seems a little too much like jingotourism to me.
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i was having similiar thoughts about everyone going through a little boot camp between highschool and college. was trying to tie it together with our gun control debate. it would seem to make sense that if you are exposed to war then would be less inclined to engage in it. sort of works like a vaccine. the only problem is will that mutate and create virulent strains of warmongers and highly trained criminals? obviously hard to say. as for "our boys" fighting for less than altruistic reasons, conscription has a way of doing that to you. would you prefer executive outcomes? lastly, i viewed the john mccain phenomena partly as some boomer guilt remover over their dissing the gi joes when they returned from vietnam. i dont know to what extent that dissing is a myth but since when do the losers get parades anyway?
im still working on the ww1 v ww2 question. my first instinct is to say that the us was far more engaged in ww2 and lost more lives. the red baron likely never heard of pearl harbor. and the cargo of the enola gay has cast an even longer shadow than lenins tomb.
- dave 6-07-2000 12:06 am
oh yeah. heres the esteemed nola scientist which the memorial is to honor along with those dday warriors. i guess im glad they are honoring a scientist/engineer as a war hero. how often does that happen? but do we need more memorials to the dead? whats that tomb of the unknown soldier for? i guess i should be happy people are taking an interest in history but i was much more interested in the cause and effect of history than i was in the heroism and vagaries of the battlefield. it just seems a little too much like jingotourism to me.
- dave 6-07-2000 12:30 am [add a comment]