Comments on: It’s 1938, not 1968

By: Anthony van Dalen

Anthony van Dalen — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:06:14 +0000

The “free flow” of immigrants is down substantially due in no part to Republcians who want problems to fester because it helps them get elected to do what they are paid for: Cut rich people’s taxes.

By: jeffrey delauretis

jeffrey delauretis — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:02:28 +0000

i sugest to counter putins agression mr cimbala join tyhe ukraine army. he probably will not do this because he is a cowerd

By: Geof

Geof — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:50:53 +0000

“We must all remind ourselves that rationality of superpower leaders, clear-eyed awareness of the supremely high stakes, installation of wise fail-safes, and healthy respect for “guardrails,””

Unfortunately, world leaders in the last few decades have almost uniformly been idiots…in particular, the USA, with a POTUS who is suffering from dementia, yet remains in office. Look at our current choices for his replacement; Trump or Harris. Harris is a congenital idiot, incapable of speaking a coherent sentence, and Trump is supremely self destructive. Relying upon eithers rationality or “clear eyed awareness” is whistling past the graveyard.

By: Joe Buff

Joe Buff — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:09:48 +0000

As an avid, contrarian. mostly-apolitical student myself of world military history and foreign relations, I agree with Dr. Cimbala’s take here: U.S. domestic politics since 1776, and especially since 1945, has deeply affected our national defense policies & actions — and our national defense decisions & outcomes have always had profound effects on domestic political controversies, too. Failed assumptions, cultural mirror-imaging, and internal divisiveness have always presented grave challenges, at great costs along the way, to our (so far) mostly-favorable results in major state-on-state conflicts. (Counterinsurgencies and brushfire wars, sadly, are another matter.) My own question lately has been whether the current world situation is more like 1938 or more like 1914? I’m thinking that, unfortunately, the answer is “Yes. Both.” Humanity might well be collectively sleepwalking — what with plentiful nuclear weapons and kinetic war in space both now on the table — into a cataclysm that escalates uncontrollably/inadvertently to become a irrecoverable catastrophe, one that is the (wildly expanded, and so much worse) analog of the blind march-of-armies into the senseless squalid endless slaughter of World War One. The ultra-high-tech nature of today’s and tomorrow’s threats does not change the fact that millions could die; rather it horrifically magnifies the possibility that the whole human species could die. We must all remind ourselves that rationality of superpower leaders, clear-eyed awareness of the supremely high stakes, installation of wise fail-safes, and healthy respect for “guardrails,” kept the First Cold War from turning into a nuclear holocaust. Many pundits, including yours truly, see today’s CRINKs nuclear brinkmanship, nationalist/militaristic belligerence, and unrelenting malign influence information warfare, as ignoring those critical lessons learned. The bad guys this go-round are tempting fate far to close to the edge of The Abyss. I agree with Dr. Cimbala that, whatever the outcomes of Election Day 2024, America’s people and our leaders have our work cut out for us to protect our freedom and world peace.