The Art of War

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
> >
> > I wouldn't place any blame on America.  Montaigne and, as I wrote
> > earlier in the day, Hobbes saw the direct effects of Modern reforms.
> > So, I'd say the blame is to be placed on England, Germany, and then
> > France.  This is why I understand the insurgence in Afghanistan in
> > Iraq, they don't want our Modernized ways.  But hell, Pre-Modern or
> > Modern violence and war are present.
>
>While the roots are European, America is the trunk and the limbs. What
>the insurgents don't want is nearly beside the point because they will
>get modernized and our ways come with the cell-phones.

Indeed. The US should have attacked Britain and Germany where the 
World Trade Center stunt was actually hatched rather than a pair of 
insignificant countries without any proper means of retaliation, 
except of course Iraq balanced off Iran which now owns it all.