Amazing how much has been forgotten since this 1988 New Yorker cartoon…
“The quest for a political mechanism to force
government to serve the people is the
modern search for the Holy Grail.”
Amazing how much has been forgotten since this 1988 New Yorker cartoon…
Oh, they’ve learned the lesson. The problem is that they haven’t learned the RIGHT lesson.
The lesson they learned was, “We can do better than the Soviet, British, Russians, Mongols, Alexander the Great, etc. etc. etc., despite all historical evidence – both personal and general – to the contrary.”
There’s stupid. Then there’s “Army Stupid.” 😀
ironically, the military guy looks like David Petraeus.