A sound byte from Ken Burns about what FDR said about the Sunday raid on Pearl, could be said today.
FDR said "everyone knows we were going to get into the war for months, we just didn't know how and when".
IMO, Putin is more dangerous than ISIL, he is on a mission to reclaim the former glory of the USSR and to control the new route due to the arctic ice melt.
He is not the sharpest tack in the box, but his ego is bigger than his IQ.
FDR and Churchill new the end of WWII was just an rest interlude with the Soviets, and I feel the same.
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I've said over and over that this is not a new war (with ISIS); this is part of an endless war.
And, truly, going back over a couple centuries of exploration and exploit, the resources at stake may have changed but a lot of the players have remained the same, blended with some very old rivalries that have cultural and religious baseis.
Right now, we've got some Shia-Sunni Arab-Jew Natural Gas and Petroleum access and territory beef going on that has it's roots in every conflict that came before it during any of our lifetimes.
It's truly nothing new here, except perhaps the fossil fuel angle which is, perhaps, just hitting the century mark as a matter of national or international interest.
First it was wood and coal, and even ethanol and biodiesel before petroleum based liquids came along in the early 20th century.
