Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-Plato
This is the caption from the beginning of a movie I now possess. You may remember it: Black Hawk Down. In fact, you may remember when that movie characterized all the limp dithering we used to do in military conflict around the globe. It's coming back for a short time, under Obama and in his wake. Then it will swing back too far the other way.
These days I'm trying to think back to a time when America had little faith in itself. Back to the days of Billy Jack and the Feral Motorcycle Movie, when inflation was reality, when Iron Eyes Cody cried on the side of the road and when Richard Nixon ran his White House like Russian Roulette. I remember when we used to say that we were going to see the day when we'd have to buy clean air, back when rivers caught fire and women expected to get raped after dark in Times Square. I remember when suddenly we had to drive 55 and the President told us to keep the thermostat at 68. I remember gas lines and people who stole gasoline out of your tank and Pep Boys started selling locking gas caps.
I think we're heading backwards. I think it's because everybody has gone soft and they think we can finesse our difficulties. Not so, people. Not so. Get ready for the second set of the Seventies. I'm preparing.
Here are two more horsemen.
They say if war is the answer, what is the question. Well, what kinds of questions do you have about the economy? Yeah. And what kinds of answers have you been getting? Exactly.
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