History and the war

Victor Davis Hanson:

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... War is like water, its recent manifestation like a pump that delivers more of it more quickly but does not change its essence, which is entirely human—and human nature is fixed. So what Lincoln felt in 1864 or Truman in 1950 is not unlike Bush must feel now (which does not necessarily imply that Bush is, for example, a Lincoln), as the pulse of the battlefield has shorn away erstwhile supporters and prompted calls for talking rather than sacrificing more for victory. That wartime fickleness in a democracy, mutatis mutandis, is a universal phenomenon and goes back to the Greeks, as Thucydides saw in his brilliant epilogue/epitaph about Pericles in book II. When things appear to be going wrong, it is an age-old human trait to blame others, especially those for whom the buck must stop....

Ignorance of warfare is a serious problem in a democracy. The left in this country, which controls much of higher education has fought hard to keep people ignorant of war in hopes of pushing their anti war agenda. Remember, they only oppose our side of the war.