Join the Discussion

Reply
Report this post

Mr. Scheer: Not a very encouraging thing to read about our exalted Democratic Party, at least the DNC wing of it. I do hope Mr. Obama will polish his flag lapel pin, step forward, and explain. But what about today's NY Times editorial, which says McCain "must now answer for the role he played in pushing the Air Force to keep Northrop-EADS in the competition"? .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. I have to pause most over your recount of the days of mutually assured destruction. A friend recounted to me recently how vividly he remembers playing at a swingset in his back yard during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when another kid came up to him and said "You know, you may not be alive tomorrow." Kids in that era learned to take it for granted that the world could destroy itself at any time. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... But what strikes me in a way I haven't quite appreciated until reading your column now is how astounding it is that a nation's leaders could be so intent on destroying their opponents that they would actually be willing to exterminate an entire country in order to win. Not to mention put their own country at risk of the same thing, although I'm sure in their arrogance they felt they could cook the Soviet Union before there was any chance of retaliation. Searching for a way to look at this positively, I guess one might conclude that, as sick as the nation's approach to war still is, we've at least broken the deadly fever that gripped us then.