Re: SAS Soldier quits Army over Iraq -- Glowing refererence from regiment


Grassy Knollington wrote:

Well that theory seems to imply to me that it was OK for Hitler to try
expansionism but it was just a poorly planned and executed, failed but
perfectly logical experiment.

Nah, it just goes to show prejudicial Fascism is an inferior system.
Denys a country of human resources that it would otherwise have.

It also implies that if I get my hands on some decent air defences
(aam's, amm's) and ground defences (ssm's) I could annex a portion of
England and my right to do it would be determined by the amount of time I
could resist the attempts to take it back.

Obviously, if you used a bit of forethought, it would not take much to
conclude you wouldn't last very long for a variety of reasons. Your
dependence of groceries on others, the stronger military, etc.

As such, you're more than welcome to try, but "conflict" can also take
a hypothetical dimension.

It also implies perpetual war until the aggressor has all they want or the
defender can not hold them off any longer, it also implies to me a lot of
dead civilians who the generals and their like (certainly the american
ones) don't even bother to count anymore.

Humanity has always been locked in a perpetual war.

In fact, I would argue that weak systems that possess more than they
should by virtue of their military capacity to hold it, _contribute_ to
instability. Oil money, for example, propping up theocratic autocracies
that spread instability and trouble.

I see it is a working theory, but its application/use I think is
anti-democratic and rather too bloody.

Quite the opposite.

Conflict is the fairest and blindest judge of all. It is the most
democratic system that the Earth could ever use.

Bloody? Yes. But the end result will be a humanity with a system of
governance refined by being continually challenged & improved.

We must accept the realities of life that:
1) Resources are finite;
2) The best way to apportion resources is in proportion to merit;
3) Conflict is the fairest judge of merit.

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