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Hopefully History will not repeat itself 24 years later.
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<blockquote data-quote="alfredo_buscatti" data-source="post: 189241" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>I was in a local smoking lounge last week and the topic of discussion was the US/Iranian conflict, and a managerial type, who stays very fit although small of stature, voiced the remark that the US was challenging Iran "because we're the United States," and tacitly, that no one can withstand us (except the Vietnamese); further I think there was a certain amount of swagger and machismo in his statement, that the US will do what it likes.</p><p></p><p>This swagger has no place in our military thinking. It belongs to the 19th and the early to middle 20th centuries. Our Manifest Destiny has been made Unmanifest by history.</p><p></p><p>When Nelson Mandela was the newly-elected South African President, he declared there would be no wholesale retribution for members of the South African Police who had perpetrated the many, many ghastly horrors on Africans during apartheid. Instead, if they openly told the truth about what they had done and had been acting under orders, they were set free. Mandela said if you hurt someone, you hurt everyone, including yourself.</p><p></p><p>It is this kind of thinking that we should be bringing to the Middle East.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfredo_buscatti, post: 189241, member: 36"] I was in a local smoking lounge last week and the topic of discussion was the US/Iranian conflict, and a managerial type, who stays very fit although small of stature, voiced the remark that the US was challenging Iran "because we're the United States," and tacitly, that no one can withstand us (except the Vietnamese); further I think there was a certain amount of swagger and machismo in his statement, that the US will do what it likes. This swagger has no place in our military thinking. It belongs to the 19th and the early to middle 20th centuries. Our Manifest Destiny has been made Unmanifest by history. When Nelson Mandela was the newly-elected South African President, he declared there would be no wholesale retribution for members of the South African Police who had perpetrated the many, many ghastly horrors on Africans during apartheid. Instead, if they openly told the truth about what they had done and had been acting under orders, they were set free. Mandela said if you hurt someone, you hurt everyone, including yourself. It is this kind of thinking that we should be bringing to the Middle East. [/QUOTE]
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