tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516326066185312823.post5300973103114850986..comments2023-06-28T08:58:32.444-06:00Comments on Plastic Manzikert: Russian Strategic BombersKelsey Athertonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530487540461606153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516326066185312823.post-37624402004523015702007-09-12T19:38:00.000-06:002007-09-12T19:38:00.000-06:00George Orwell was a regional police officer in occ...George Orwell was a regional police officer in occupied India, he wrote a short piece on having to kill an elephant, or rather CHOOSING to kill an elephant because he was the authority figure and someone had to do SOMETHING. He was not equipped for the task, and made a horrible mess of the situation.<BR/><BR/>On a larger level, Britain made a big mess of India becasue they were not prepared to kill the elephant, or even better, just get it a nice girl elephant to hang out with. Or whatever solution that Orwell might have come up with beside killing the poor beast.<BR/><BR/>It seems that world spanning powers often make the same mistakes - they over reach. The Military Industrial Complex term may have been coined in modern times, but boy did the East India Trading Company have the same (or more ) power than a Haliburton or Raytheon. Using the military as private security for a company shipment is as old as the oldest Navy.<BR/><BR/>Times will change, I think, and we will eventually see a "Risk" type splitting of quasi-national boundries. The European Union already exists, and if we make Mexico and Canada some modern equivilant of the 51st and 52nd state, we would be almost there. <BR/><BR/>Orwell predicted that, natch, but he thought there would eventually be three powers, not the Risk model of one per major continent.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your thoughts on the hegemon, sir.Joseph Lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02507143050779744224noreply@blogger.com