In a fast-changing world, a common mistake is to keep fighting the last war.
She was talking about the Republican nominating process, but she may as well have been talking about the entire country. If it isn't Republicans fighting the last war, it is Obama fighting the last war. Between the two of them, we may still be able to win WW II. But winning anything else is definitely in question.
With that last link, the following quote was of most interest:
We often excoriate armies for getting ready to "fight the last war." In some sense, they all do that. It's unavoidable. The real problem, however, is that they train based on mistaken notions of what the next war will be like. And they always will, until someone devises a way to peer into the future.
Perhaps you don't have to peer so much into the future as into the present. It was Sun Tsu who said know your enemies and yourself and you don't have to fear the outcome of a hundred battles. Does this country know itself when it overlooks what it had in its own back yard for over forty years? I'm referring to the Molten Salt Reactor experiment. Does this country know its enemy when it couldn't stop 19 men from plunging us into a costly and divisive war? That was a reference to 9-11 of course.
We have to get back to some basics or things will get worse.
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