Anecdotes aren't useful data. (View Post)

... Exactly. We've had a generation where we've deceived ourselves that the constant vigilance in favour of our current way of life is no longer necessary. In that generation we've incurred some debi… (View Post)

Duncan is supremely unimaginative. It would be utterly fascinating. A good friend of mine, ex-special forces, spent about a week there as a disaster relief recce. He said he'd been to autocratic regi… (View Post)

Defeatist crap. You'd have said the same in the 30s. (View Post)

Again, I agree to some extent. Though it reminds me of Dostoevksy's brilliant Notes from Underground. To paraphrase, he says: "An idiot can easily take action, the more intelligent you are the m… (View Post)