07-09-2018, 12:40 PM
(07-05-2018, 04:30 AM)Marypoza Wrote: Full disclosure: l am a pacifist & l really don't care to see us get involved in any wars. Do you think it's possible to get thru a Crisis without a war?
Can we have a 4T without a hot shooting war? Yes, I think so. The only restriction I would impose, as if I have any authority to impose anything, is the need for a clash of ideas that invalidates one set of arguments while validating the other. Using war as a tool is intellectually easy, but getting there without war isn't impossible, just unlikely. A more likely outcome, sans war, would be a truce or some sort that tilted more one way than another … think the armistice on the Korean peninsula as an example, albeit one that required war to achieve. Typically, we would consider that a failed 4T.
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