Comments on: This was how America acted when it was serious

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:35:24 +0000

I reviewed a biography of General Schriever here:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/24503.html

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:00:03 +0000

We should be more precise; obviously the red tribesmen in and around the Pentagon felt a sense of urgency; but of course they were outflanked at every turn by the bluecheck class avant la lettre, in and around state department.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:29:35 +0000

If there really was a genuine ‘sense of urgency’, they wouldn’t have assassinated Patton and delivered basically everything Stalin wanted in the post-war settlements. To say nothing of the massive economic and socio-cultural support the blue tribesmen running America provided to the USSR, which was critical in keeping the whole potemkin country propped up as long as it did, before, during, *and after* the war.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:55:33 +0000

Eisenhower made huge mistakes (looking at you Suez!) but he remains one of our most under-rated presidents, the man who really won the Cold War. In contrast, Robert McNamara could stand for all that went wrong in late 20th Century America – arrogant, dismissive of those who had actual real-world experience, obsessed with numbers and “metrics” to the exclusion of reality, unwilling to admit mistakes until it was too late, and then expecting hosannas of praise for having finally admitted them, constantly failing upward – an astonishing figure, impossible in any other time and place than late 20th Century Western society.