America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory w...
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.
Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity.
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' th...
To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph to hope for. "Generation Z, they cleaned up their ow...
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
