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Originally Posted by Mutt
We'll never see anything like WWI and WWII again - thankfully. The numbers of lives lost in both is staggering, absolutely staggering. As bloody and horrific as they were they were also glorious and magnificent spectacles of the worst and best in men and why we still have so much interest and admiration for those who fought in them.
We aren't the same people anymore, soldiers are coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq more fucked up in the head than in far more bloody more recent wars in Vietnam and Korea.
I will watch Patton again tomorrow - he's one of my all time great heroes, flawed as he was. The greatest general the world has ever seen, took over the US Third Army in 1944 after almost being kicked out of the military for slapping and kicking a couple of soldiers he deemed cowards. Under his leadership the Third Army advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in history.
If you've never watched the movie, download it, it's a masterpiece and a history lesson.
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I think we haven't seen anything in terms of Armageddon. What will happen in the next few hundred years or sooner is some kind of bio weapon will get releases or terrorist will do a coordinated nuke attack. 9/11 isn't as damaging as what can happen.
If you understand physics you know that you can fit all the necessary components for a nuke in a small brief case. Hopefully it doesn't happen when I'm alive.
Another thing is we need to start colonizing mars and other planetoids soon that way we don't have all our eggs in one basket.
It will happen, it just takes a few or one clever person that has an evil agenda and patience.