Posted by JD Seller on February 06, 2014 at 05:30:28 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: USS Forrestal posted by Scott in SF on February 05, 2014 at 21:37:53:
John Posted about how he would like it to be like the Bible tells us.
Isaiah 2:4
"And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
I wish that the real world was like the Bible would like the world to be.
Here is a more realistic quote from Benjamin Franklin:
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords"
The current Politicians that are tearing the best military in the world apart at the alter of FREE everything for the masses will live to rue the day they did so.
FDR did much the same during the depression and that was part of the reason the Japanese thought that an attack on Pearl Harbor would be effective. We where able to switch your manufacturing plants to war good and win the war. We could not do that today. There are too many things made in China that are no longer made here in the USA.
If we where to fight the Chinese in a few years we will not have the equipment and or the manufacturing to win.
Talk to some of the WWII Vets about training with wooden rifles and driving Jeeps around pretending they where tanks. A major call up would have that happening again.
This quote from George Santayana really applies in today's world.
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’
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