Stop War

We all know where Obama stands on all this START business. He doesn’t like our military and wishes it would go away. He campaigned against nukes - against war. There were enough who voted in support of this premise even being possible.

The nuclear deterrent worked for a good many years, so they say. It is only now beginning to break down because it has become clear that America won’t fight seriously under any pretext. China has already run this experiment several times and the results are in. It is building its military - not to fight America, but - to cement its position within it’s own East Asian theater.

While it is true that a modern military fosters the illusion of invincibility and therefore acts as a deterrent, it does not guarantee victory. Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars threat may itself have been an illusion. It worked - not in the way anyone expected it might, but - rather in the way a head-fake does, causing the Russians to over-reach and over-spend and, in the process, become disheartened. They’re still not over it and Putin is trying hard to make amends.

Someone once famously remarked, “…you go to war with the army you have.” If it’s not enough, you resort to asymmetric warfare. Look what the stone-throwing Palestinians have been able to accomplish! Look at Iran and North Korea!

No, boomers are not the only answer. We could kill our enemies with stones if we had to. Our problem is, we no longer know how to define ‘winning’ or ‘victory’. As long as we view ourselves as the source of all that‘s wrong with the world; as long as we run around apologizing to everyone in sight; as long as we’re so divided within ourselves as not to not recognize an outside threat as it develops, we may as well start painting targets on ourselves and get used to the likelihood that we will soon be led by something quite alien to us; something which will take some getting used to.

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