01-27-2017, 08:03 PM
(01-27-2017, 05:33 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > What's your theory about their overall strategic plan?
I don't believe that the South had a strategic plan in mind when they
attacked Fort Sumter. I don't believe that Japan had (much of) a
strategic plan in mind when they attacked Pearl Harbor.
Israel certainly had no strategic plan in mind when they attacked
Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006.
I keep saying this -- generational crisis wars are not rational, any
more than sex is rational. Like erotic urges, nationalistic urges
take over the mind and take control of it, so that there is just blind
emotion driving a person or a population to a climax and disaster.
Maybe it would be more rational for China to attack Mongolia,
but that wouldn't satisfy the nationalistic urges permeating
China today.