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Hippies, and Neo-Hippies, you are WRONG and HISTORY backs it!

I have nothing against Hippies and their ilk personally.  I really don’t.  But these are the ones who are normally associated with the “War is wrong” and “War is not the Answer” type sloganeering.

Add to this mix the Beauty Queens who hope for “World Peace”…ugh.  Really?

I can appreciate this idealism….. in a TEN YEAR OLD.

But even ten year olds have had some history classes.  And even ten year olds probably realize that this type of idealism will soon leave their ever developing minds.

Lets go back to the Hippies.  The counter-culture of the 1960′s consisted mainly of a bunch of spoiled brats who were insulated from the realites of the world by their well-intentioned parents.  Those parents survived the Great Depression and World War II, for those reasons they did NOT want their children to experience the same things.

Sounds good, but that caused the realities of these spoiled-brat punks not understanding much of anything.

Ronald Reagan pointed out that no conflicts of the 20th Century that the United States was drawn into was due to the United States being too strong.

The other day, I saw that a Facebook friend commented that Woodrow Wilson ruined our nation.  There may be some truth to that…..in fact, a lot of truth.  Wilson and his successors set the disarmament and isolationist tone that followed World War I.  Wilson did try to get us in the “League of Nations” but the Senate wisely refused to let us join.  Too bad that wisdom didn’t keep us out the United Nations, as it was poorly constituted back in 1945.  [Forming a democratic-republican body of nations that includes nations who have no respect for democratic-republican principals was, and still is, idiotic.  Especially in the wake of World War II.]

Any how, back to my thesis.  The 1960′s era hippies and their 21st century counterparts are wrong.

War, while ugly and expensive, is and always has been necessary.  The simple reason why is limited resources.

This is also the reason why socialism and communism do not work.  Limited resources.

The solution is simple.  Unlimited resources!!

Back to that in a bit.  But the Japanese expansion in the 1930′s was due to the need for more natural resources to provide for their people.  The American Civil War was predominiantly about resources, the industrial North had more than the agrarian South (leaving the South more dependent on slavery). 

Talk about it all you want, but sometimes you simply have to go from gold to guns to get what you want.  Is that the best way to handle things idealistically?  No, but it is realistic.

The other slogan “War is not the Answer” is just plain stupid…as are those who say that.  Not to go all “Carnac the Magnificent” here, but you really need to know the question.  If you ask, what is the best way to take out a tyrant who is hell-bent on killing ALL people of a certain religion or ethnicity, I think War is the answer.  I am funny that way.  If the question is, what should be done when your nation is attacked for being wealthy and influential, I think you fight back.  But I am probably just silly.

Hippies, you and your ilk are not respected by me.  You can’t be.  Because you can’t be taken seriously.  Everything you stand for is based on bad, imcomplete or warped information. 

Vietnam was the conflict of your era.  Was THAT war wrong?  Yes, but not for the reasons that you think. 

Had President Truman supported a socialist leaning, but not yet Communist, Ho Chi Mihn after World War II by pushing for an independent South East Asia, rather than a French Indo-China, it all could have been avoided.  And Ho would have been an America allie and supported by the West would likely have kept him from becoming a full-fledged Communist and more like what several countries in Western Europe toyed with after the war.  Sure, it would have pissed off Charles De Gaulle and other French leaders, but did they really deserve to have ANY colonies after they rolled over and played DEAD in 1940?  The whole war would have been avoided.

And the best thing about THAT “what if” is this. 

No hippies.