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"The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds of no account and deeds which are mighty and worthy of commemoration. . .Nevertheless, the science of History is a great bulwark against the stream of Time; in a way it checks this irresistible flood, it holds in a tight grasp whatever it can seize floating on the surface and will not allow it to slip away into the depths of Oblivion. "
- Anna Comnena (1083-1153), The Alexiad
"I have taken all knowledge to be my province."
- Francis Bacon, 1592
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Wobble and Not
Writing in response to this post, David Carleson says:
My caution to you on wobble is that ALL GIs in ALL wars are too close to
properly see the big picture. I have valued your insights for some
time but birthing a state out of the sewer in Iraq was never going to be
pretty. As it was not in Japan, Germany, Korea, etc.
I thank God that we have not had 100s or 1000s of our citizens killed in
repeated Beirut style bombings. I thank God we have not had scores of
our brave paraded on TV as captives of scum like Zarkawi. These would
be the things that would signal to the homefront that Kennedy is right.
That would be our Vietnam/Iran failures rolled up in one.
Our soldiers have done a great job and (as I see it) we are nearing a
tipping point in the middle east that could not happen with the shithole
of Iraq still under Baathist control.
Imagine how the ill-equiped soldiers at Valley Forge could not see our
democracy bloom from looking at the blood in snow. I am so very glad
they didn't go wobbly.
It's so difficult for me to get a good assessement of what's going on. I will say that the voting went off much better than expected. You can tell because the media got quiet about things in Iraq again - for now. It's obviously not as bad as they like to portray. We'll see how things go, and keep working on it.
