A stretch to apply this lesson to firearms in the USA and really a stretch to
those of us who think our government shouldn't be the world's cop.
Phil
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From: Joseph E. Olson <[email protected]>
To: List Firearms Reg <[email protected]>
Cc: postHeller <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:40 PM
Subject: If the cop isn't RIGHT THERE, he's not going to intervene.
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.
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