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Category Archives: War
Futile Wars
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. –Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the war finally ended on July 27, 1953, the North had been devastated by three years of … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bruce Cummings, Eisenhower, futility, Iraq, Korea, Ukraine, Vietnam
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Ukraine: what is our exit strategy?
We might solve a small problem by making it bigger. — attributed to Donald Rumsfeld He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. — Sun Tzu More Union soldiers than Confederate soldiers died in the … Continue reading
Should Ukraine trade territory for peace?
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. –Neville Chamberlain Sept. 27, 1938 Reportedly, Henry … Continue reading
Corning Farewell
They met some big wheels, and do not Let you forget it. — Auden I went to Tom Reed’s April 21st Corning farewell meeting and found it interesting. There were about 30 people there mostly family, staff, and government … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Political, Reed's Views, Uncategorized, War
Tagged Farewell meeting, Ukraine
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Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The Russian and Japanese empires were exhausted by the war, faced domestic unrest, and having little to gain by continuing the struggle, accepted President Theodore … Continue reading
What do President Biden and Harry Truman have in common?
What do President Biden and Harry Truman have in common? Both were Senators, both faced (and in the case of President Biden, still face) bitter partisan opposition, both took office in perilous times. In the March 7th issue of The … Continue reading
Posted in Political, President, War
Tagged Beverly Gage, Cold War, Harry S. Truman, Jeffery Frank, President Biden, The New Yorker, Truman Committee on Civil Rights
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The Powell Doctrine
What’s the point of having this superb military … if we can’t use it? — Madeleine Albright The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United … Continue reading
The Cost of Sentimentalizing War
Has the American myth of the Good War helped ensnare us in bad ones? Carlos Lozada, in a book review in the November 22, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, discusses Elizabeth D. Samet’s Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and … Continue reading
Borders
Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen Korea has a border with China which allowed soldiers and material to flow to N. Korea. Short of a war with China, N. Korea couldn’t be defeated in the Korean War. Vietnam has a … Continue reading
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