Comments on: I ain’t gonna study war no more: Victor Davis Hanson and the teaching of military history

By: US History Notes

US History Notes — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:42 +0000

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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:57:40 +0000

When Kennedy says the Iraqis must standup and protect themselves, what do you think he means? What do you think a man that fauking couldn’t protect the woman in his own fauking car, means when he says others are too protected?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:56:06 +0000

The Greatest Generation didn’t want their children to have to face the same challenges, therefore they sheltered, spoiled, and tried to keep their children safe and boxed in. Never having to fear the real world. Well, the real world touched them nonetheless, except it wasn’t the Vietnam War, it was KGB funded Psychological warfare and brainwashing.

You can’t protect people by keeping them in a box or a cage or a pedestal. They must learn how to protect themselves. In this case, the Vietnam generation failed. They failed not only themselves but the people that sought their protection, which is a blood stain that no amount of words or protestation may erase.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:00:40 +0000

Another aspect of the study of Latin: it is brainwashing for citizenship in our civilization.

In year 1 you jump into a language whose vocabulary seems limited to words like virtue, courage, duty, wicked tyrant, the state, consul, liberty….

How could it not influence young impressionable minds towards the very civic virtues that our acursed boomer generation shunned?

Of course it was the generation that went before that failed to slap them back onto the right path. Perhaps having gone through the depression and then WW2 the “greatest generation” was just too plain exhausted to care.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:39:17 +0000

Unk always avoids superior forces and engages only inferior forces. A sound doctrine for armies, if I may say so, though less so for individuals.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:15:52 +0000

Unknown Baby,
Yet, you still felt compelled to say so, as if Mary cares.

By: The Unknown Blogger

The Unknown Blogger — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:32:45 +0000

Whoops, sorry Mary, I can see we truly have no reason to be speaking to each other!

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:05:58 +0000

There’s a three generation split it seems. The Vietnam Boomer generation that are now in power, the generation after Vietnam which shares some of the same traits but less of the psychological memories(or at least directed somewhere else), and the generation that grew up in the 90s predominantly.

By: Trimegistus

Trimegistus — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:18:52 +0000

Neo:

Perhaps our different views are the result of differing ages. I grew up post-Vietnam — going to school with kids named Nguyen and Pham who occasionally mentioned how they had to flee their homeland to avoid being murdered. The “boat people” and the Cambodian killing fields may not have been headline news, but they were part of the intellectual landscape.

But of course reasonable people may disagree.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:15:15 +0000

Synovia,
What you said reminds me of something historian Shelby Foote said in Ken Burns’ Civil War series about the battle of Chickamauga:

“Chickamauga is an indian word, and like all indian words is translated “the river of death”.