Re: In A Perfect Game: SG/DS/RPG's - Experience Vs. Training

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:09:37 -0800 (PST) John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>--- Don M <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> It is an almost 1950s mentality on both side with
>
>You misspelled "1050s" on the religious intolerance
>but their nuclear warfighting doctrine makes our 1950s
>doctrine look positively realistic.  And we at least
>had the excuse of total ignorance about little factors
>like fallout.
>

Did we?  Or we just accept what we wanted to hear and discount the rest?

>> years of religious
>> intolerance
>> on top of it.............Add to this that one side
>> will be reincarnated and
>> the other
>> gets a host of virgins in paradise and you have all
>> the makings of a
>> Glow-in-Dark
>> goat screw..........Damn now I'm depressed!
>
>Hey, if it weren't for the fact that Americans are
>going to be caught in the middle, I'd have a case of
>beer and watch the Six Minute War with mild amusement.
> Sort of a final chapter to the boneheaded history of
>English Colonialism (granted that the English have
>done better than some other colonialists--but feeling
>good about comparisons to Imperial Japan, Leopold of
>Belgium, and the Spanish Inquisition mean you're in
>the wrong category to begin with.)
>

John, my Cherokee great grandmother is quoted in family oral history as
saying something very, very similar.  Guess it depends on where you sit
in the equation. <grin>   But she had no qualms about what to do with
people atttacking her America - She'd be more then slightly militant
about what we should do with Al Queda - "Execution first, trial
afterwards" to quote the Quenn of Hearts.

>If only we could get Syria and Iraq to nuke each
>other--now that's a fireworks show I could appreciate.
>
>John
>

We all have a list like that John in our deepest unconscious mind.  But
I
think I'll pass on a live-fire of WMD demonstration if at all possible.

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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