tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3847322961987724840..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Afghanistan and the Boom GenerationDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-13756473137055053482021-07-20T00:10:00.525-04:002021-07-20T00:10:00.525-04:00Professor
If we have never had either a domestic ...Professor<br /><br />If we have never had either a domestic or a foreign policy, either of which lasted institutionally much past the last or the next four years, then what really are we, have been, or will be, but a glorified postcolonial spaghetti republic?<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-85651656376915181142021-07-17T16:05:41.635-04:002021-07-17T16:05:41.635-04:00Its like everyone has to be let alone to learn by ...Its like everyone has to be let alone to learn by their own mistakes not by reading or even by being told by someone you trust to avoid certain behavior. Mistakes bring pain and suffering and teach us best. Boomer arrogance was different than GI generation arrogance but result was similar I hope you are right and the crisis is winding down . Don' t need WWIII against Chinese and Russians to pulverize our cities like Dresden, Tokyo in 45. But maybe people only learn the hard way. Without a strong USA much of post war rebuild might not have occurred. There is still a cathedral ruins in the middle of Hamburg where I live. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,Lybia rebuilds to previous state maybe unlikely, leaving a permanent lower level of life, i.e. bombed back to stone age is not a joke. So as military technology becomes dominant over civilian rebuild this is the end result, permanent decline. So as in Rome. War cycle and debt dominates productive peaceful life. WWII was five years. Vietnam War lasted ten years. Afghan War lasted 20 years. Doubling time of engagements shows growing military influence over government. So civilian, middle clas is declining as wealthy, lobbyists, corporations decide political process, control the media. We have become serfs of warlords and their lackeys( politicians, media talking heads). America through debt, printing money like Weimar is becoming a failed state. Trump, riots, etc make this apparent to foreign observers watching nervously. Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-75758658479777876072021-07-17T13:04:59.740-04:002021-07-17T13:04:59.740-04:00Professor
Interesting article mostly on the Boomer...Professor<br />Interesting article mostly on the Boomers. <br />They are made proxies and stooges for everything wrong with America now.<br /><br />This passage is emblematic:<br />"...In retrospect, the committed or ambitious members of the Boom generation took one of two paths. One large cohort, influenced by the late 1960s, renounced traditional avenues to power and became activists of one kind or another, or went into academia. Those have now succeeded in transforming many values of our society, first within academia and now in major institutions. The second type, including leading political figures and defense intellectuals, went into government or business and transformed existing institutions to suit their own ambitions. That is what Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Douglas Feith and the rest were doing in their plans to use military force to transform the Middle East, and that is what their contemporaries did on Wall Street. They took advantage of the dominating military establishment that earlier generations had built up during the Cold War, and of the post-Cold War environment in which the United States did not as yet have a real peer competitor. Wolfowitz, apparently, said frankly that the US had only a relatively brief time to eliminate hostile regimes like those in Iran, Iraq and North Korea before a peer competitor emerged. He had failed to push this view through during the Bush I administration, but by 2001 it reigned supreme..."DK<br /><br />It would take me a long time to go through this to show its issues for me, but at least you do place blame, more or less, here, on both left and right Boomers.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the weight of ugly American history goes back to its founding, not to Boomers. <br /><br />The judgement and verdict of history can return, like Freud's return of the repressed.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com