10-03-2020, 10:47 AM
(10-03-2020, 09:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Tribal thought is often a reaction to modernity. People who claim some superiority of their nation over the merits of other nations set them selves up for the biggest of all blunders -- underestimating the Enemy. Just look at what Hitler had to say about the United States.
Yes, but tribal thought existed long before modernity, and people were underestimating the Enemy as well. I just think having a military streak used to be cost effective, that a culture with a streak of aggressiveness could often come to become dominant. One that ignored military capability let itself be eaten. It as become a bad habit, something that is hard to let go of.
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.
