Re: space travel or war

Brad,

Truman, Eisenhower and others in the 1940s and 1950s instituted
policies that they thought were in the long term best interests of the
United States. Today, we can see in retrospect how those policies
have not served us. This doesn't make these men evil or the center of
some massive conspiratorial plot. They clearly made a mistake. The
sooner that mistake is rectified the better off we'll all be. By
casting this error as the center of some vast drama - you marginalize
any discussion of our policy errors and make it much more difficult to
bring about useful change.

The fact is reducing the importance of farming and manufacturing to
our domestic economy and relying on allies for the bulk of our food
and production has hurt us economically, and our systems for
maintaining control of the global economy while operating from a
fundamental position of weakness has undermined our geopolitical
capacity to effect useful change without appeal to military force.

We are in a fragile position and need to extricate ourselves from it.
The first step is a clear and frank review of our policies and what
our options are. Calling people names and ascribing to them insane
motives doesn't help in that process.


William
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