The Middle Eastern question

[Kinser79]

(05-13-2016, 03:48 PM)Galen Wrote: In the general case you are correct. I must mention that the Silents were always pretty much non-entities after the Boomers started since all they ever did was try to placate everyone.

Well on a congressional level the Silents held majorities from around 1976 to 1992, but in the first half the GI dragged them around, and the second half the Boomers pushed them around. They are perhaps the politically weakest Artist generation in US history. I'm unsure as to why that is, but I do suspect that part of that might be due to decreased birth rates during the Depression and WW2.

Quote:Good Point. This is one of the reasons that I suspect that the era of the total state is coming to an end. During their early lives the US actually won wars. Other than Grenada and the Gulf War all Generation X has seen is that the US is really good at losing them. Grenada was a joke and lets face it the Gulf War was the trigger that set the current series of wars into motion. Only an idiot or progressive, but I repeat myself, would continue with interventionism in the face of that record.

I have yet to see in my lifetime that I can remember a military action wherein the US was victorious where the supposedly mightiest military in the world was not fighting some third rate third world military. If anything things have gotten worse since the revocation of the Draft. But then again the older I get the more I seem to think that the basis of citizenship along the same lines as Starship Troopers might be a fundamentally good idea.

Quote:Most people have the comic book caricature that we get in school which is more indoctrination than history.

Orwell pointed out that who controls the present controls the past and who controls the past controls the future. I am not given to conspiracy theories, but I do think that there has been a conscious effort to make history classes little more than propaganda and as boring as possible by having teachers that are the least qualified to teach, teach those courses.

How much of that is a conscious conspiracy or is merely ruling classes acting in their own self-preservation is a matter of debate.