Ouch! Hey, I like disco.
Fred writes:
If not for the hippie movement, the Vietnam war would have lasted many
more years and thousands of more lives would have been lost to this
futile and corrupt war.
I don't think we should have been in Vietnam and I would not have gone.
But I read something about a dozen years ago and it had such a profound
effect on me I remember the exact quote, who said it, and where. It was
Leonard Wibberly, in his novel "The Mouse That Roared," and the quote
was "All pacifists are warmongers."
It made me wonder, could the protests against the war actually
prolonged it? Could the protests have been so effective that they
affected the conduct of the war, made it limited? Thereby killing many
more people?
I don't know, but I wonder.
Another possibility (this one I know is true): a dirty little secret
that the military and government doesn't talk about is a conventional
army cannot beat a guerrilla army. (There is one way: kill everyone.
This Americans are loath to do. However we did it in the Phillipines and
put down a guerrilla army by killing 220,000 men, women and children.
The commander was court-martialed. Try to find this in a history book.)
The Germans conquered Serbia during WWII in about a week. During the
subsequent guerrilla warfare they lost 70,000 troops.
This is why I believe law is part of society but the State is part of
biology--murder, conquer, rape, rob, invade. Things animals do to each
other.
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