Posted on 04/18/2007 8:36:32 PM PDT by Josh Painter
It seems to be part of our nature to feel that we live in an era separate and distinct from the past – until something like the Virginia Tech killings forces us to face reality. Then, the horrors and atrocities of "the olden days" visit us again.
Periodically it has been decided, by the people who decide this sort of thing, that history as we know it is over. Or, at least, that things have changed so much that the lessons of the past no longer apply.
Though there are fewer and fewer people around today who remember it, the conflict that was officially ended by the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 was known for several decades as “The War to End All Wars.”
World War II, however, required a rewriting of the history books. The Holocaust and similar genocides committed by the Soviets now make the reverie of the ’20s and ’30s a sad footnote.
Since then, history has “ended” several times, notably with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Once again there was the sense that, finally, we had moved beyond the need to think about people and regimes willing to murder for their own ruthless purposes...
Technology has made great leaps forward, but human nature – and the fact that society still sometimes produces people like the killer at Virginia Tech – has not changed...
What happened on the campus in Blacksburg, Va., was an awful reminder of the challenge ahead of us – not just to secure the safety of our college campuses, but to secure all of the rest of our nation as well. Once upon a time, madmen needed armies to attack other nations. This is no longer the case.
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Crusader......signed up 02/07/07
To trash Thompson.....SNIFF......
Thompson is going no place. He looks 100 years old and has cancer. He is over the hill and only losers would support him.
Gee, I guess there must be millions of losers. You just sit back and watch mister, you will eat your words.
Thompson is going no place. He looks 100 years old and has cancer. He is over the hill and only losers would support him.
Gee, I guess there must be millions of losers. You just sit back and watch mister, you will eat your words.
the only loser here is you
Who you supporting, Cindy Sheehan, Hillary, or the Breck boy?
Just noticed you guys haven't got any men running.....
I think Crusader is using hyperbole as a sarcastic comeback. The < /s> has gotten old and fallen out of favor so keep a sharper lookout for posts with attitude.
The n00bs ain't what they used to be...
OK...........your tagline is priceless : )
Fairly transparent, if you get 3 in one day : )
Signed up last month and used his first post to bash Thompson.
Bye bye asshat
“Signed up last month and used his first post to bash Thompson”
3 in one day.....no match for the Robinson bro’s : )
The ol DU she ain’t what she used to be....repeat : )
I’m hoping on a fourth, but I haven’t heard back yet on that one. :)
: )
I sniffed him first.....cupie doll? : )
self ping for later
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