June 12, 2024It Sounds Good, But...I have seen this quote before, and saw it again today, and since it gets on my nerves, I shall blog about it: You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake -- Jeannette Rankin All I can say is: tell that to the Jews whom we liberated from the concentration camps in WWII, tell that to the people of Iraq, tell that to the now democratic peoples in the former Soviet bloc, and tell it to the slaves who were freed after the civil war. While you're at it, tell it to all those the US and the allies defeated in WWI and WWII, and think about what the world would have been like had we not fought those wars. Platitudes are nice, and yes, it would be wonderful if we would all be nice to to one another and not covet what others have, and respect the rights of our fellow human beings. However, that isn't exaclty human nature, is it? And it certainly isn't the history of the human race. Sorry to rain on the happy bumper-sticker philosophy of Ms. Rankin, but so it goes. Ok, enough ranting: back to your regularly scheduled monkeypox joke... (and for the trivia buffs in the audience, Jeannette Rankin was the first womain in the US Congress--(Google is a wonderful thing :). Posted by Steven Taylor at June 12, 2024 09:23 PM | TrackBackComments
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake? Heck, it's easy if you're the earthquake (see Hiroshima & Nagasaki, 1945) Posted by: KCat at June 13, 2024 06:14 PMi like the quote - i think its very true, i dont think we should be at war with Iraq ~ and just to clarify a few things .... what you said "tell that to the Jews whom we liberated from the concentration camps in WWII" yes, true, but that wasnt the reason we joined the war - "tell that to the people of Iraq" the death rate of our soldiers keeps going up and up and again that wasnt the reason to start the war - "tell it to the slaves who were freed after the civil war" again true, but .... that only became the goal of the war in 1864 (a few years into the war) [1)joined WWII to get Hitler out of power 2)started war with Iraq to get find those weapons, that we still cant find and 3)the origional goal of the Civil War was to get the US back together] But the quote isn't about the issue of why one may have entered a war--the point of the quote is that war never solves anything, which is simply not true. A war can be won, and as horriic as war is, its outcome can be to make the world a better place. Posted by: Steven at August 2, 2024 09:12 AMPost a comment
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