hiya
Basic problem with getting a good leader is.. they never last long enough.
All you get is a coupla decades .. then it's time to go through the whole 'who's gonna fill his shoes?' routine.
The US gov't at least tries for some kind of transition that doesn't involve shooting between changes of leadership.
Personally.. I like the fact that there are not only limits on what can be done, there is also a huge amount of inertia to overcome to get anything done at all.
The President is just the point man.
He can't do anything without sellin it to the Judicial and House branches.
And to make anything 'permanent' .. LOL .. you need massive popular support for that to happen .. which those guys who signed the Declaration engineered. They were some of the sharpest knives in the drawer when it came to making a govenment 'for the people .. of the people.'
As to the original thread question. . I am glad the USSR is gone.
It was an 'Evil Empire.' -tm Ronald Reagan
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As to National Attitudes:
After Pearl Harbor the US determined that it would never be caught out like that again. So the US armed itself for worst case scenarios.
After Belarossa, the USSR determined it would never be caught like that again. So it armed itself for worst case scenarios.
It's a wonder no mistakes happened that led to WW3.
With a single individual holding the trigger, it would have been easy.
(anyone can have a bad day)
Thank God it wasn't a single individual on either side.
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Comment was made about South Korea not havin to pay for its defense ..
..not true.
US forces there are very much the minority.. training, leadership, and restraint is what I saw.
The South Korean military would rather settle North Korea's hash right now .. and they feel it would only take a couple of days tops.
They are balls out, all the time, 24/7.
Did you know they bought an entire factory to build F-5's decades ago .. and other things.
Can you imagine a second lootenant in an F-5 *not* being King of the World?
Did you know they have *thousands* of them?
(both the planes, and the pilots).
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Funny thing about 'Mother Russia' ..term coined by leaders in Moscow to motivate their troops in WW2. It worked so they named the conflict 'The Great Patriotic War' and created 'Hero's of the Soviet Union' ..morale booster terms coined in Moscow during the dark days when most didn't know if the Axis could be stopped.
The US created 'Aces' and war bond tours were done by its more well known airmen/soldiers/seamen.. same reasons.
-just my two coppa from an ex-USAF Electronic Warfare troop who helped keep some of those 'Yankee Air Pirates' from gettin shot down instead of Jane Fonda, posturing with the gunners below, exercising her right to be blonde, bimbo, and stupid.
-GE
