Reply #70: That's why it's the John F. Kennedy special warfare school

[dusmcj]

JFK was a swinging dick Irish boy and a patrician to boot who was well-schooled in the standard techniques of enlightened empire for maintaining its benevolent control. Thank God we have folks like that for times when we need to send people into harm's way, as the phrase goes (and yes, such times do exist, you'll be wasting my time at least if you proclaim they don't) but the enlightened vision expressed in the above was spoken out of the reference frame of the reactionary anticommunism of the 20th century (which was in turn an early death gasp of degenerated "liberal" (in the original socioeconomic sense) society of the 19th) and was thus sadly diluted by it. JFK represented the best of the war generation, but the intervening 40 years of human evolution have been necessary. The reaction is more clearly identified as the core human problem, and we need the resultant willingness to decisive, and appropriate, action, without the bindings to ego and self-aggrandizement. Peace as opium of the masses is not helpful but instead just another distraction as the usual suspects go about their usual business. Peace without justice is slavery.

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