Well, I'm back

[Eric the Green]

(02-03-2018, 06:17 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(02-02-2018, 05:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Congratulations to our new moderator. I assume your role will not include awarding those birdie trophies?

I shall second.

(02-02-2018, 05:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The USA is in crisis mode, although, being the 1850s redux, the economic recovery seems to cover it up to some extent as it did then, and the full conflict is not yet blazing.

If by 'the full conflict is not yet blazing" you mean there has not been a regeneracy, I could be with you.  I note that the more challenging years of awakenings and crises are fewer most of the time in their Anglo American incarnations.

I still think Bush 43's Iraq War II had a crisis sized and values changing side to it.  Bush 43's years might have been the first half of a multiple crisis.

I might agree only in the sense that the challenge of terrorism is ongoing since 2001, and America's involvement in the Middle East has not ended since then. Of course Bush's invasion in 2003 is not a change in values in any other sense; his project for a new american century is defunct, and his proposal of preventive wars was discredited and will NOT be a value change.