tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post3646921863725102522..comments2023-06-03T07:46:46.395-07:00Comments on Mind of Mookie: Short History of Warfare and Its Contemporary FailureMookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01073027586188784701noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post-74527488750877191292009-12-08T21:10:48.498-08:002009-12-08T21:10:48.498-08:00Scott- you posted it to the post written just befo...Scott- you posted it to the post written just before this one, but copy&paste is wonderful and here is what you said:<br /><br />VERY interesting and well developed post! (And I'm not just saying that because you said nice things about me). War indeed has run the gamut from being rape and pillage hordes of Vikings or Huns to 'the sport of kings' for European nobility. Some times massacres have been the norm, sometimes rituals with few deaths. Conflict is everywhere, how it gets handled has varied through history.<br /><br />I think you are absolutely right that what we call "war" is in many ways a political military operation. When politicians cease seeing their military as young men and women who should only be put in harms way and forced to do things that might bother them forever only when absolutely necessary, and instead see them as a "political tool" to achieve abstract goals, then it is an abuse of the military.Mookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073027586188784701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post-62888116227124267022009-12-08T20:37:15.626-08:002009-12-08T20:37:15.626-08:00Did my earlier comment not get saved. Shoot. I&#...Did my earlier comment not get saved. Shoot. I'll try to re-craft it tomorrow. It's too late tonight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com