Patriotism and History

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Please note that I said national security, not imperial security.
>>The number one strategic aim of any sovereign state's armed forces is
>>defense of the, er, homeland.  The fact that we have now created a
>>*new* cabinet-level post to do the job that the secretary of
>>defense was already supposed to be doing is ludicrous.
>
>We hadn't had an attack on the homeland in 60 years - on the northern
>mainland since like forever. Isn't that a pretty long string?
>
>Doug

That seems post hoc thinking to me, but the main point is, that string is 
now broken, and any group worldwide with a serious grudge against the US can 
see how easy it was to break that string.  Our true vulnerability has been 
horrifically exposed, and our elaborate defense apparatus stands revealed as 
a Maginot Line, a wildly expensive delusion.

Carl

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