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 titansix rated 6 months ago - From the page: "Americans don't like to lose wars--which makes sense, since we have so little practice with it. Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting wars--the kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courage--...
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- yassertariq rated 6 months ago
- The U.S. produces nearly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases each year and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesn't intend to do a whole lot about it.
- gavinhudson rated 6 months ago
- Really intelligently written article. Well worth a read.
- titansix rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Americans don't like to lose wars--which makes sense, since we have so little practice with it. Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting wars--the kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courage--and those are the kind at which we excel. But other struggles test those qualities too. What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads or the eradication of polio but a massive, often frightening challenge that we decided as a culture we ought to rise up and face? If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it.
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