A useful analogy for civilian life. As the Mom in Oklahoma found out last week.
>>> Joseph E. Olson 1/8/2012 1:34 PM >>> FROM TODAY'S PIONEER PRESS. So, here we go again. The Obama administration will reduce its long-service, professional land force to pay for ... [a] strategy show[ing] a degree of a-historicism that exceeds that of any post-World War II administration. So much for remembering "the lessons of the past." Here's what the lessons of the past 70 years really teach us: We cannot pick our enemies; our enemies will pick us. They will, as they have always done in the past, cede to us dominance in the air, on sea and in space because they do not have the ability to fight us there. Our enemies have observed us closely in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they have learned the lessons taught by Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Saddam Hussein: America's greatest vulnerability is dead Americans. So our future enemy will seek to fight us on the ground, where we have traditionally been poorly prepared. His objective will be to win by not losing, to kill as an end rather than as a means to an end. And we will enter the next war again tragically short of the precious resource that we have neglected for six administrations: our soldiers and Marines. http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_19691353 A lesson from my first-year college Western Civ. course: "You only control the ground you are standing on." Or in modern-speak: "Boots on the ground." No boots, no control. No "good guy" control, no civilization. QED. **************************************************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [email protected] http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html
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