Re: militarist
Daniel Mahanty (MAHANTYD@ojp.usdoj.gov)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:47:52 -0400
>Based on my reaction to what I've read, I don't think I could ever
>presume to debate combat with a veteran.
Well said. Nor could I - as though they were the keepers of a knowledge
I don't want to understand, and never could.
Politicians present a whole 'nother scenario.
> I never HAVE done so, but
>now I know I never could do so. It would be the height of arrogance
>for someone like me -- no matter what my political beliefs -- to
>do anything more than listen. And learn.
A lesson as a student, I am learning everyday. I find that History is the
great teacher, but he teaches in a foreign language most often.
>We should only be so lucky as to reduce human conflict to matters of
>simple mathematics and other business of the mind.
Or even to matters of nature, or instinct...
and thank God.
>The deeper I get
>into the Ambrose book, the less I find myself trusting that there can
>be some personal utopia where there is no violence, no war, no
>conflict.
I will heed your perspective and experience -
and pick up a copy of the book.
>Is this something Sergeant X came to understand?
This, among other things, I believe.
> I suggest so,
>and that it took form, in part, in his own handwriting on the flyleaf
>of the Goebbels book he found among the possessions of a Nazi
>official he had personally arrested.
I would venture to agree with you on this -
Thanks,
Dan