Posted by Sigismund on February 28, 2008, at 23:46:15
In reply to Re: I don't know how much more I can take! » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on February 28, 2008, at 22:32:42
Geez, I actually know so little about him, but from this distance he seems all Roman virtues to me.
But it would feel like one more throw of the dice.
Isn't it interesting how when the Surge shows some temporary effect people are so willing to say that it's working?
A complete failure of empathy.
My contact with the USA is of such a limited duration.
Do you remember "West of the Wall"? I don't know when that was from, quite a bit before 1964, and I was quite young.
Maybe it was all smoke and mirrors, maybe it helped to have an enemy as bad as the USSR and before that Germany and Japan?
If the USA was lucky to have such enemies, it can also be said that it handled the luck wisely.
And I suppose that is what I feel now.
Simply that I want to feel that our world is run by adults.But then I wonder, has it ever been?
(What I mean is that I was reading about Himmler and came across the assertion that he and Hitler had the breathtaking naivity of wicked children.)
So I guess the answer is, not always.
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