On 10/18/07, Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So that's what it was, "the last resort of the incompetent" when my mother > joined the RCAF to help the Brits (and all of us, actually) in 1939. Mom's > never thought of herself as incompetent. I'll have to inform her. She has 92 > years now (93 on Nov 7) and has been living a delusion all this time. My > dad's dead 2 years now, but he always thought the same as my mom - that he > risked much for others, when he signed up for the Navy on December 9, 1941. > Both were injured in this "last resort of the incompetent" and knew friends > that weren't so fortunate. > > All people deserve better than bumper sticker politics. You'll do yourself a > favor if you remember history and refrain from such folly by giving more > thoughtful consideration to your words.
Not to defend Mr. Robb (he's ~more~ than capable of speaking for himself!) ;-) but... I won't say that WWII was the "last just war", because someone will certainly offer an example or two of a more recent "just war" (whatever the hell that means). However, there have been few armed conflicts where the stakes seemed so black-and-white. Evil regimes invading countries all about them and looking across The Channel at the very cradle of Western Civilization, fer gawd's sake! (okay, okay, some hyperbole there...) That we in the Western Hemisphere got involved was noble and necessary. I can think of few conflicts since that required such intercontinental mobilization. Your mother and father did The Right Thing by becoming involved in that war; they are truly heroes. Perhaps Bill was referring to US foreign policy in, say, the past 50 or 60 years? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
