It Is Never Wrong To Be On

The Problem With Deterrence - Apparently Sometimes Forgotten By Our Former Presidents - Is That It Is Not Static, But A Creature Of The Moment, Captive To Impression, And Nursed On Action, Not Talk. It Must Be Maintained Hourly And Can Erode Or Be Lost With A Single Act Of Failed Nerve, Despite All The Braggadocio Of Threatened Measures. And, Once Gone, The Remedies Needed For Its Restoration Are Always More Expensive, Deadly - And Controversial - Than Would Have Been Its Simple Maintenance.

Western Elites - The Beneficiaries Of 60 Years Of Peace And Prosperity Achieved By The Sacrifices To Defeat Fascism And Communism - Are Unhappy In Their Late Middle Age, And Show Little Gratitude For, Or Any Idea About, What Gave Them Such Latitude. If They Cannot Find Perfection In History, They See No Good At All.

If I Talk To Black Students On Campus, They're Not Sympathetic To The People Who Are Not Sympathetic With [black Lives Matter Movement]. The Fact That You Want To Argue Rather Than Find Some Common Ground, I Think, Has Gotten A Lot Worse In The Last Years.

The United States Military Is Now Evolving Geometrically As It Gains Experience From Near-constant Fighting And Grafts New Technology Daily. Indeed, It Seems To Be Doubling, Tripling, And Even Quadrupling Its Lethality Every Few Years. And The Result Is That We Are Outdistancing Not Merely The Capabilities Of Our Enemies But Our Allies As Well - Many Of Whom Who Have Not Fought In Decades - At Such A Dizzying Pace That Our Sheer Destructive Power Makes It Hard To Work With Others In Joint Operations.

Ignorance And Arrogance Are A Lethal Combination. Nowhere Do We See That More Clearly Among Writers And Performers Who Pontificate As Historians When They Know Nothing About History.