9 thoughts on “Winning Wars”

  1. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” – WT Sherman. The best way is often the quickest, cruelest way. We give our forces excellent powerful weapons and then we won’t let them use them.

  2. We’re all George Zimmerman now. Break our nose and we will shoot you. As we should. A very American tradition.

    So who out there would punch our nose? Until then, we will not wake.

    1. In the moral calculus, and on the principle of “picking on someone your own size (Mr. Zimmerman does not appear to be a big man)”, I am going on record as standing by George Zimmerman, and by the same calculus, I am going on record as asking Mr. W. Mitt Romney to resign from seeking election as President of the United States in shame for having been party to an assault. Just because Mr. Romney was a somewhat “wild teen” does not excuse him for his past actions, and neither does Mr. Martin’s youth excuse him from the consequences of his actions.

      Mr. Martin paid with his life for a very bad decision made in his youth; all I am asking from Mr. Romney is that in the service of honor, he pay for his youthful indiscretions with his presidential ambition.

      People, we have other candidates and there is a whole lot of primary season left to decide on the nominee.

      1. The rumors of events in high school should have no bearing on how someone is viewed 50 years later. But ya let’s look at what Romney did in high school and ignore Obama’s entire life history especially the last 3 years.

        1. I don’t have any more respect for anyone who casually writes about grinding a cigarette out in the dorm hallway carpet as I do for someone who issues an Arnold Scharzenegger-style “boys were boys and we were young” non-denial. I don’t have much regard for the opinion that disrespect for property with one’s filthy smoking habit is “cool” nor have regard for the pose that assaulting someone in a non-consensual prank or school hazing is “no big deal (and you are a liberal sissy if you think otherwise, and anyone playing the liberal-victim card with regard to expressing any opinions from the perspective of being on the receiving end of a non-consensual hazing is three times a sissy)”

          Dreams of My Father and Dreams of the Weather Underground indeed. I have suspended giving to my Northwestern University McCormick Institute alma matter and been giving the money to a peer Engineering School in its place, so don’t pin this I-am-looking-the-other-way-at-Mr.-Obama guilt trip on me.

          I am reasoning that a person’s character and outlook on life is well-formed by teen age, especially for the type of person who has the level of ambition to seek to be President of the United States many years later in life. That was the whole point of Dreams of My Father, now, wasn’t it? So yes, we can hold Mr. Obama accountable for his behavior as a teen, or if not accountable, regard that behavior highly predictive of his style of presidential leadership, and the same holds true of Mr. Romney.

          Look people, no one around here was thrilled with Mr. Romney from Day 1, and we all had suspicions regarding his character, the veneer of being a properly observant Latter-Day Saint not-withstanding. But now that he is all but the Republican nominee, we are into full Echo Chamber mode that there can’t be any grumblings from the back-bench in the Conservative/Libertarian Movement.

          On the other hand, Mr. Romney’s non-denial denial of events 50 years ago seem to be helping him, not just among the Conservative/Libertarian faithful but even among some independents, that he is not a genuine religious goody-two-shoes as LDS in the way Mr. Santorum is as a Catholic, but that Mr. Romney is a “regular guy” who doesn’t have qualms gathering a posse together to stomp some guy who seems to need stomping.

          1. Or you could look at the event from a completely different perspective. While a youth in the early 60’s, Mitt Romney took direct action to try and stop the juggernaut of long-hair, drug use, disrespect for authority, rock and roll and casual sex that later came to define the era. He failed.

            Was it a lack of commitment? A lack of understanding the horrors that were to come? Like Marty McFly, Mitt had a chance to make a difference and change the future, preventing Kent State, stopping the abandonment of South Vietnam to decades of totalitarian dictatorial communist rule, keeping Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix off drugs. He failed.

            He failed because he stopped after inflicting one brutal and humiliating haircut because he didn’t have the stomach and the organizational skills to organize mass haircuts for all the budding proto-hippies, and as a result hundreds of thousands of his peers ended up on drugs, millions of them had high-school year book photos that they will never let their grand children see, millions of Vietnamese were condemned to servitude, dozens of rock legends died, and disco arose from the ashes of the cultural wasteland that arose when love beads gave way to polyester. It could’ve been stopped by Mitt Romney, but he lacked the tenacity and will to see it through, to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Had he done so, his high-school victim would stand before us proudly at the RNC convention and say, “i was the first, the start of Mitt Romney’s sweeping redemption of American culture that turned us from Marxism, Maoism, scandalous skirts and devil music, and returned us to the wholesome goodness of short hair, Lawrence Welk and bow ties.”

            But that didn’t come to pass, because Romney lacks the spine to play the heavy and do the hard lifting that America requires in this desperate time of culture war, the willingness to be reviled as the bad guy who can kill the pig to keep the rest of the kids in line.

          2. All “alleged,” Paul. After 50 years, even a murder trial could not come to the certain judgement you have, despite the “victim’s” family saying that the story is inaccurate.

            You’re a tool, Paul. We’re not buying the story at all, so don’t waste your time calling for Romney to step aside.

            Jeez…

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