05-13-2020, 06:25 PM
(05-13-2020, 02:50 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: As Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek (or one of his writers) put into the mouth of a Klingon:
Only fools fight in a burning building.
COVID-19 is a burning building, and if plagues can happen with wars or be consequences of wars, they seem to make the waging of war, especially Crisis war, difficult. So if we Americans end up with a leader (Trump) who could never wage an effective war -- Obama was in contrast the mailed-fist-in-a-velvet-glove sort of leader who could be the worst sort of leader that any foreign leader could provoke.
Yep. Part of why I don't expect a crisis war among nuclear powers in the remaining prophet-nomad-hero configuration among the nations brought into sync by World War II.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.