re: #173 EPR-radar

We also tend to forget that WWII was extremely unusual for a war, in the sense that it pretty much did have good guys and bad guys, and the US was one of the good guys.

WWI is a much more typical war, nothing but death and destruction for no apparent reason.

Well, leaving aside the moral ‘Good Guys vs Bad Guys’ aspect, WWI and WWII have more in common than either has with the GWOT. In both WW’s, as in most of the wars we remember from history, nation-states warred with each other, and it ended when one side was defeated soundly enough to give up, or was completely crushed.

The GWOT is like the worst aspects of the Vietnam War but with the potential for mass casualties within the US.