From reality based thought I seen today...
Au, Ag, Pb and by all means learn to speak Mandarin.
If the Chinese are increasing their footprint around the world, hold vast amounts of gold, are using our worthless FRNs to buy up solid assets like pork plants and real estate in the U.S., and sure as heck appear to be the rising power, a functional understanding of their language would be a powerful capability.
Even more powerful would be to make your kids learn it.
They will be worlds ahead of their peers.
Relegated voted in employees are slow to listen, are you?
Another foot note in history that some miss is the influenza of miserys decimated civilition and military abilities on all sides.
Dolchstosslegende, was invented in September 1918 by General Ludendorff. As soon as he realised that the war was lost, he called for the formation of a civilian government which would sue for peace. His original idea was to make the civilians take the blame and save the reputation of the armed forces.
This entry is for where Vin has it noted onward to be as the trajectory some note:
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ned#p19111
Another step close would convey my thought from Johns accurate query...
Whe pestilance and military meet as before from Athens forward the pattern can and has repeated.
Another facet would be since they are educated as we noted correctly so no excuses...that one might ask the question, "Aren't American socialists in favor of their own country's survival?" To answer this question, we must turn to abnormal psychology. Socialism... is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created. As I noted TSTS for clarity
Don't show me eight apples Washington you never worked for and then try to tell me I have ten to tax. It only makes you all look stupid.