Leave a vacuum, power or otherwise, and someone WILL fill it.
Historically that someone is not our friend.
Joe W
On 1/8/2012 5:02 PM, Phil Lee wrote:
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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o- 651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037)
f- 651-523-2236
St. Paul, MN
55113-1235
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