--- amadeus amadeus <amadeus482000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think the last 40 or so years of US military
> history
> have shown us that you don't need these kind of
> things
> to fend off and defeat the largest, most powerful,
> armed-to-the-hilt military force in the world.
This is an excellent point and one I hadnt really thought of and puts the debate in proper perspective. The more insidious problem for a revolutionary govt. would be sabotage against it and having access to all the highest calibar weapons is not going to stop that. The challenge would be to stop it without resorting to totalitarian means.
Thomas
===== <<Furthermore, we must ask what does the dialectician want? What does this will which wills the dialectic want? It is an exhausted force which does not have the strength to affirm its difference, a force which no longer acts but rather reacts to the forces which dominate it-only such a force brings to the foreground the negative element in its relation to the other. Such a force denies all that it is not and makes this negation its own essence and the principle of its existence.>> -Gilles Deleuze "Nietzche & Philosophy"
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