horse of george

War is the life blood of great powers - any great power that becomes detached from this reality or allows this reality to be compromised by forces that do not respect or understand it or in any other way sees this life blood significantly diminished will cease to be a great power. Both the right and left in America indulge factions which are a threat to the imperative of American military might - and by far Obama is more closely related to so described inimical factions on the left than McCain is to inimical factions on the right. I imagine or it seems reasonable to think that there are times in a great power's existence when an ebb in the ethos of war is tolerable - but with America mired in two difficult to resolve conflicts and with Israel set to exacerbate the situation in the extreme by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, my guess is now probably ain't one of those times. America will rue the day it was foolish enough to elect a community activist as its commander in chief.