Is the seabiscuit vs war admiral rivalry on again?
War: What Is It Good For? By BEN TRIPP Waging war is when you send your kids to kill someone else’s babies. It is nothing more noble than that, and all the good reasons in the world won’t differentiate your war from Hitler’s, or Napoleon’s, or Genghis Khan’s, or Caesar’s, or any of the thousands of other little excursions into bowel spilling that humankind has indulged in with monotonous regularity over the last few millennia. The stated reason for going to war is always the same; as the prophet Orwell said, “Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” The actual reason for going to war is generally understood to be a grab for resources, whether land or gold or oil or peasant girls. But that’s an old-fashioned notion. The reason modern wars are waged has nothing to do with resources, which can be secured through the liberal application of funds or the coercion of international banking structures; ra
Like the off-again, on-again Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race that finally unfolded with great drama under the guise of the 1938 Pimlico Special. … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&usg=AFQjCNFnRIsScklCK1EzX9-kxsohFPYjcQ&cid=0&ei=-I2OSoiFNYG08wT-zrzIAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drf.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F106512.
