From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 18:26:33 MST
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> John Walker
...
> designed a bumper sticker after the fall of the FSU.
And received this reply from him:
> One little detail.... The "Evil Empires" bumper sticker (which is
> available online at):
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/
>
> was made in July 1990, when Gorbachev was still in charge of
> the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not dissolved until
> December 1991, following the December 8 agreement between
> Yeltsin and the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus.
>
> So, the sticker was prophetic as well as ironic. We'll see
> how the right side of the prophecy holds up.
>
> You've probably already read Victor Davis Hanson's "Carnage and
> Culture". It is quite simply the best thing I have ever read
> about the Western way of war.
>
> ---------------- <http://www.fourmilab.ch/> ---------------
> John Walker | Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted
> | in faith but in doubt.
> | --Reinhold Niebuhr
John, thanks to you, I've skimmed it, and intend to read it soon.
I was basing my thinking on other stuff such as John Keegan's _A History of
Warfare_ and even Larry Gonick's _The Cartoon History of Civilization_ (I love
teaching kids)--
[Urk of the cave clan, throwing his hands back wonderingly:]
"Who _make_ sky?"
[Ogg, his mate, pondering to herself:]
"Do I detect an invalid hypothesis here?"
butler a t comp - lib . o r g
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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