I hope against hope that a third world war can be avoided. I have fought in a war and it was not nice. Men die in wars. Some women and children too. But mainly men.
WW1 killed or maimed fully one third of the marriageble-aged men of Britain. The women who gave white feathers to the men who did not relish the idea of being blown up to protect the women while the women sat at home knitting, were left bereft. And complaining. They called men cowards before and blamed the dead after. WW2 saw nearly a quarter of Britain's mariageable-aged men die or maimed, and a whole lot of women and children from the bombing. I was born in the wreckage of Coventry.
That was just one country's losses. Multiply that by all the other European countries and Commonwealth countries that sent troops and were bombed and you can see the awfulness.
Yes, I have an axe to grind. Men, women and children die, but mostly men.
This past 60 years has seen America come in for much criticism in trying to do the right thing and be the world's policeman. But as the saying goes, "the Good that men do, seldom does them much good". There has been an eagerness by the world to let America carry the burden of peace and America has been almost as eager to make wars where 'needed'. But too much eagerness from any side is not a good thing when men get killed. One could understand the Historian argument that America may have been a little less eager to become so 'powerful' if it had suffered as much as other countries had. As it was America was the ONLY modern industrial country to come out of both world wars unscathed.
It would not be so fortunate if WW3 broke out.
Some may see WW3 as inevitable. I would not wish it on anyone.
And a good afternoon to you Kim, in Botswanese.
She got it through and sanity is next for taxing.
Hippos??
I agree with Colleen.
Am I included in the 'all'?
Confirmation experiments need to be done yet.
I propose that nutrinos are fired from the source at the same time as an Interest rate increase is announced by the Reserve bank. If the Commonwealth bank raises their Mortgage rate before the nutrinos arrive at the reciever, it will prove that they travel faster than light.
No. To be correct, and politically correct at that, it should read:
"Nestor told me that he wants to withdraw from his chemistry class but I told him that he has been working hard at absorbing all the propaganda from a linear-thinking, patriarchal subject area devised soley to provide jobs for the boys and to exclude womyn from achieving their rights; and that he SHOULd withdraw to show solidarity with da Sistahood and show dem Menz that the matriarchy WILL prevail.."
Semi-colons have a place, you see.
An angry playwrite.
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I'll 'see' your George Soros and raise you an Andrea Dworkin.