I would have thought you would pick up my hint that this isn't the place for
discussion of great power activities.
Phil
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From: Joe Waldron <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: If the cop isn't RIGHT THERE, he's not going to intervene.
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.
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>A useful analogy for civilian life. As the Mom in Oklahoma found out last
>week.
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>>>> Joseph E. Olson 1/8/2012 1:34 PM
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>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
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>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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