By scathew, on July 31st, 2009
I can never remember this quote, though it’s an important one, particularly now that I’m reading about the “Straussians“:
Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back [...]
By scathew, on July 29th, 2009
When I was growing up China, like the USSR, was considered an anti-democratic evil communist regime bent on a “conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids”. They were considered the evil to end all evils and via the “domino theory” would consume our nation if we didn’t vigilantly protect against them.
Now [...]