More from the NRO

[HankMorgan]

With the US election and all its bull in the past and with events in the world generally going in favor of the good guys, I haven't needed the outlet that che-lives (long may it prosper) provides for me. But Victor Davis Hanson of the National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200502250748.asp) does such a good job of putting the present events in context with history that I had to point it out.

Please, all you pessimists should give it a read.

[redstar2000]

Originally posted by Victor Davis Hansen
Finally, the intellectual class that we often read and hear from is increasingly divorced from much of what makes America work, especially the sort of folk who join the military. They have little appreciation that the U.S. Marine Corps is far more deadly than Baathist diehards or Taliban remnants — or that a fleet of American bombers with GPS bombs can do more damage in a few seconds than most of the suicide bombers of the Middle East could do in a year.

Yes, the "sort of folk who join the military" -- torturers and murderers.

Good folks to be "increasingly divorced from", in my opinion.

(Note that the desertion rate is climbing and the recruitment rate is falling..."divorce" is becoming more popular on a daily basis as people learn what the military is really like.)

Yes, they can flatten cities...but, um, er, they can't safely drive to the Baghdad airport. Nor are they safe more than 30 miles from Kabul.

Such imperial power and glory! :lol:

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[Hodgeh]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2005, 01:24 PM
Yes, the "sort of folk who join the military" -- torturers and murderers.
Not torturers by choice. Many of the recruits who enter the military do so out of lack of other options. Class warfare, blah blah, etc.

The abuse and torture... er where am I going with this post... <_<

[Ele'ill]

Not torturers by choice. Many of the recruits who enter the military do so out of lack of other options. Class warfare, blah blah, etc.

:lol:

This doesn&#39;t apply to them because "they are capitalists", and obviously different than the &#39;other lower class&#39;. <_< :P
This other lower class is the only lower class, poor, that this board likes to acknowledge.