Re: Anyone else think "WWIII" is around the corner?
I think that since I was born in 1946, a lot of people have been sent off to fight and die, but we heven't been anywhere near actually starting WWIII.
The folks in charge were so terrified at the prospect of nukes being unleashed again that they intentionally perverted everything related to war.
Anything but another nuclear war.
<span style="font-style: italic">Anything.</span>
Nobody wants to fight a war because nobody wants to commit to the resolve it takes win one anymore. They are totally content to see enmities festering across borders for going on centuries, rather than to let them run their logical course and come to a conclusive resolution.
Courage and resolve in the face of adversity?
Naaahh.
All this is being done in the name of civilized behavior.
With due respect, civilized behavior had killed and maimed a lot of good and decent young people for a long time; too long and too many, maybe more in the end than letting the dogs loose would ever have done. I can't really say, but I do think the current system is flawed enough to warrant an overhaul.
The League of Nation gave us WWII.
The UN has rebounded from WWII and given us the War on Terror.
WWIII is lurking around the corner, and has been squatting there since before I was born.
During that lifetime, my generation and those that have followed have had that sword hanging over our heads, have watched our leaders back away time and again from that sword, and have willingly accepted the constant drain on our most promising young lives, our national wealth, and our very sanity.
I look around and see a world that's neurotic at best and maybe consitutionally insane at its very core.
Looking back, I think I'm beginning to see why, too. I admit it, I'm slow; but now, even I get it.
We soldiers have paid, and continue to pay, the ultimate price for all of this.
I think it's long time past the point where we needed to take back the reins from our 'more civilized' bretheren.
Nobody hates war more than the men and women who actually have to fight it. But which is worse; war in its untempered reality; or the mess we have here now, supposedly in its stead?
If we weren't afraid to go out and clean the clocks and make the rubble bounce, do you really think we'd be taking the kind of crap from the Middle East, from OPEC, or from North Korea that passes for enlightened diplomacy in these days?
I think not.
Greg