I'm increasingly of the view that, as I said in my diary, we are re-taking the course because we didn't learn the first time. Just as Europe didn't learn the lesson of WWI and tried, with the Treaty of Versailles, to go back to business as usual. Only after 1945 did the establishment of the UN and the European Union show that the lesson had finally been learned.
The US, by comparison with Europe, is an immature country, relatively untouched by the tragedies of war, and still filled, like a young idealist, with an exaggerated sense of its own power. To such a mentality, the endless talking of the UN and the EU is insufferable, whereas a more mature mind knows that talking is good, no matter how tedious, compared to the bloody alternative.
Thanks for the comment, chocolate ink. Pogo: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
As for being immature country-that's pretty much what got Johnny Depp in so much trouble for his remark about the US being a young puppy barring it's teeth when it didn't know what it was really doing...or something to that effect.
You're certainly right about people here who apparently have no real idea how the massive destruction/chaos and loss of huge amounts of the population can do to any country where the war is fought. There are far to many people here who honestly do seem to equate the whole Iraq war as some sort of war video game..only now that 60 minute video game is continuing to go on/on and it's not so much 'fun' anymore. "People never do evil so throughly and happily as when they do it from moral conviction."-Blaise Pascal
