|
I.F. Stone said it a long time ago:
"We Americans have lived in a country that's been very succesful technologically... and we instinctively think that every problem must have a technological solution. The atom bomb was supposed to be a perfect weapon. The atom bomb gave us nuclear superiority for quite a while. And please notice that in that period of nuclear superiority, was the first time America had ever been kicked around and lost a war to some little 2x5 country across the Pacific. And the Russians today in Afghanistan, with all their nuclear superiority... what good does it do them? The wonder working weapon has to work. We're starving education, the recruits are getting dumber, and the weapons are getting more and more complicated. How the hell you gonna run them?"
__________________
|