Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Insecurity in victory
No peace ever brought so little security and, after eight nerve-wracking years, the production of thermo-nuclear weapons has deepened the "victorious" peoples' sense of insecurity.
The West once again feels a great insecurity, even as its enemies -- al Qaeda and its affiliates -- are in strategic retreat. It is comforting to me, at least, to know that this insecurity is not a new feeling, but that our parents and grandparents suffered from it too. Perhaps it impelled them to stand up when necessary to guarantee the survival of government by the people.
3 Comments:
By 
TigerHawk, at
Tue Mar 08, 10:05:00 PM:
Why doesn't it surprise me that you did?:)
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Mar 09, 05:58:00 AM:
Patton, now's the time for a big TigerHawk confession, which I'm going to make here in the comment section and hope that nobody notices -- during my adolescence, which spanned most of the 1970s by some measure -- I was a "war gamer," which probably meant that I hung with different people than you did. This sparked an interest in military history in particular that persisted through college. Then law school intervened, life happened, History Ended, and I read very little military history again until after 9/11. So I have some catching up to do, since you forget a lot in 20 years.
By 
, at
Wed Mar 09, 07:48:00 AM:
It doesn't surprise me a bit that you are a former war gamer, I know you guys, pouring over your maps until late in the night.
I remember the first time I played Diplomacy. Going by the name, I thought it would be a good idea to be polite and diplomatic. Within an hour I was being overrun by every other country in the world.
- Levi
