BadAim, you nailed my thoughts better than I could have. (Sorry to have been absent from a thread I have really enjoyed, but we are fighting for some 2A rights down here and I have been onto that topic elsewhere
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Right and wrong have been obscured by moral relativism. People sitting nice and comfy in their homes watching TV have a hard time believing that there is evil in the world. They have an even harder time making sacrifices to fight evil "over there". I think we call that complacency? lol
Our collective mentality is not unlike what it was just prior to WWII. Then as now, it allows threats to grow. We usually let them grow until they appear on our doorstep...then we fight desperate battles.
All wars are ugly and when you try to fight them under the misguided conception that they can be "clean", well, you get Vietnam or Afghanistan.
Blackdog, thank you for the tutelage on Greece. Extrapolating some from what is common through history, your write up explains a lot of what is happening in Greece today. Once again, it shows that people who do not learn from history (even recent history) are doomed to repeat it. Those of us in the US, Britain, Australia, and other Western "Democracies" are very close to what the Greeks have gone through recently AND for very similar reasons.
The next few years will be....interesting. I can't help but think that a lot of people had similar thoughts in the 30's.
Splitter