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America's Warrior Spirit is Fading
Excellent, if long-winded articlde by Kaplan on American society and how it relates to the US military (or not).
http://www.the-american-interest.com...?Id=289&MId=14
This was something that struck me when I read Gates of Fire. We, as Americans, are almost totally unfamiliar with the brutality of war, violence, and evil, or the thin red line that defends this country from a descent into that Hell man is capable of. Abu Graib was a fraternity hazing, and reading the enemy interrogation and torture manual will quickly reveal that to those who will open their minds.
Our wake up call may be coming. I fear for what our children may soon face.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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