Llywarch Hen wrote:
What Timothy May espouses is not the appearance of craziness but actual insanity itself.
James A. Donald wrote
if you organize your nuclear forces so that any serious war is likely to escalate uncontrollably into the battle of armageddon, regardless of your intentions and desires, which is how the American government organized its nuclear forces in Europe, then you can pretty much guarantee you will not have to face a serious war.
At 03:09 PM 7/27/96 -0700, Jon Leonard wrote:
This was, of course, the logic behind the alliances before World War I. It was obviously suicidal to start a war with any of the major powers, but it happened anyway.
Your history is false: War was romantic and a big vote winner before World War I, and after World War I and before world war II the "intellectuals" were still big fans of war, just as they are still big fans of communism and socialism today, though World War I was sufficient to kick sense into most normal people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com