COMMENT: Marty, thanks for that put up. You’ve defined a danger I’ve not heard from any supply. I do know you met John McCain. I feel you mentioned on stage that you simply felt such as you wanted a bathe after shaking his hand. Maybe you’ll recall, in 2007, whereas campaigning for president, he was requested a query concerning the U.S. army and sang the phrases “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to the tune of the Seaside Boys’ track “Barbara Ann.” He additionally mentioned that they’d have nuclear weapons by 2009. Right here we’re in 2026 and nonetheless they are saying Iran is shut.
FH
REPLY: I by no means met somebody who was so obsessive about warfare than McCain. I imagine as a result of he was captured and skim communist propaganda for the Vietnamese, he had this revenge streak in him particularly towards Russia as a result of again then they wrongly believed that Russia was behind Vietnam. The Neocon McNamara did his video apologizing that they have been incorrect. The Russians weren’t behind it, it was only a civil Battle.
They turned McCain’s remake of the Seaside Boys right into a track all concerning the his dream of bombing Iran.
Our Neocons all the time assume victory. Their vanity NEVER considers defeat. The Romans had suffered defeats the understood the dangers of warfare. The Roman Republic suffered a number of main defeats, however two stand out as notably devastating, every for various causes. The only bloodiest day, occurred on the Battle of Arausio. If you’re asking about essentially the most well-known tactical masterpiece that shook the Republic to its core, the reply is the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal’s Masterpiece in 216BC.
It was the Battle of Arausio (105BC) in line with the traditional historian Livy, some 80,000 Roman troopers and 40,000 auxiliary troops and camp followers have been killed . This whole of 120,000 casualties surpasses the estimated losses at Cannae. The defeat was not because of being out-fought, however to being out-led. Whereas Maximus tried negotiations, Caepio launched a reckless, unilateral assault on the Cimbri camp. His drive was destroyed, and the victorious Germanic tribes then turned and worn out Maximus’s military, which was pinned towards the Rhône River with no escape
The Roman Temple of Janus symbolized the inherent danger of warfare, which the vanity of our warmonger ignore. The open doorways of the Temple of Janus was an acknowledgment that the end result of warfare was unsure and that the god’s presence was wanted to safe a favorable one so Janus was launched. This coin of Nero portrays the Temple doorways closed, exhibiting temporary interval of peace.
The cash of Nero bearing the Temple of Janus motif are usually accepted as referring to the peace following the cessation of Corbulo’s campaigns towards the Parthians. Subsequently, Nero used the picture of the temple of Janus on this coin to commemorate the top of the Parthian marketing campaign and the peace treaty. Nero closed the doorways of the Temple of Janus in 66AD, for the primary time this had been completed for the reason that reign of Augustus (27BC-14AD) when the doorways have been closed thrice in 29BC, 25BC and 13BC.
