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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (136683)	6/15/2004 11:35:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah, war just sucks all over. It sure does, especially for those who have to fight it.. And even those who endure it as contractors, observers (media), or indigenous civilians.. Which is why I really believe when this country decides to go to war, we'd better be unified in our determination to create a better situation that prevents having to wage it again in the future. We're all looking for the "war to end all wars". I just hope that war is not a global biological or nuclear one that results in the extermination of life on this planet.. And I don't discount such a possibility (at least with regard to biological). Hawk

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (136683)	6/15/2004 4:01:51 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

quote of the week: "...they are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them." - one-star General Janus Karpinski, quoting instructions given to her by two-star General Geoffrey Miller, on how to treat prisoners. commondreams.org The "few bad apples", I guess, includes a few Generals. As is so often the case, the Founding Fathers saw the danger, and clearly warned us about the pitfalls and dead ends the Republic might stray into. And, as so often the case, we have ignored their warnings: "She [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit." - John Quincy Adams, 1821