Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Remembering Pearl Harbor---If you want peace, prepare for war.

  Michael Smith
"Remember Pearl Harbor.
Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as,
“If you wish for peace, prepare for war”.

If the mortgage bust, the ensuing financial crisis and the global recession has taught us anything, it should have taught us that this phrase has applicability across the spectrum.
- If you wish for financial security, prepare for financial crisis.
- If you wish for career stability, work as if your job could disappear tomorrow.
- If you want a good job, prepare for jobs that society values.
- If you want freedom, prepare for oppression.
- If you want to determine your own future, prepare to resist servitude.
On this day, some 80 years ago, the Japanese navy ignited the war in the Pacific.
...The problem with being civilized is that civilized people come to believe every other nation is just like them. 
Civilized people forget the natural state of the world is far more savage than they wish to contemplate...Read all.

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