Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Evil doesn't rhyme, it repeats verbatim
I've been reading a LOT of tech periodicals published during both WW1 and WW2, and I'd never seen this sort of thing before:
This was in Tele-Tech, an industry trade journal, in March 1949. The article was mildly critical of Truman's massive rearmament effort, which was clearly aimed at teaching Russia a lesson about globalism. Korea wasn't mentioned, and it's not clear that Korea was the known target at that point. Looks like Korea was just the first available opportunity to justify the program. Parkinson.
Russia mistakenly thought that bearing most of the burden and most of the deaths in the fight against Hitler entitled it to some consideration in the postwar world. DeepState was rearming to teach Stalin otherwise, just as it's now rearming to teach Putin the same lesson in the post-9/11 world.
Truman (more precisely James Byrnes) was clamping down harder than Wilson or FDR. The brief moment of open-source attitude just after Hiroshima was all gone.
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This was in Tele-Tech, an industry trade journal, in March 1949. The article was mildly critical of Truman's massive rearmament effort, which was clearly aimed at teaching Russia a lesson about globalism. Korea wasn't mentioned, and it's not clear that Korea was the known target at that point. Looks like Korea was just the first available opportunity to justify the program. Parkinson.
Russia mistakenly thought that bearing most of the burden and most of the deaths in the fight against Hitler entitled it to some consideration in the postwar world. DeepState was rearming to teach Stalin otherwise, just as it's now rearming to teach Putin the same lesson in the post-9/11 world.
Truman (more precisely James Byrnes) was clamping down harder than Wilson or FDR. The brief moment of open-source attitude just after Hiroshima was all gone.
¶ 3:56 PM
