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FOS » 16 Jun 2022, 11:33 am » wrote: ↑

16 Jun 2022, 11:33 am

explain it to him. lets go, boy. the founding fathers clearly had no idea of how much warfare would change after ww1. EVERYONE was surprised by that. 

are you gonna tell us that if george washington knew of the future of mechanized warfare it would have NO impact on his philosophy?

if he knew about the future of demographics, it would have NO impact on his philosophy?

those are pretty baseless assumptions.

But then again, im making assumptions about your analysis of this situation, and IM guessing your real thoughts are even stupider than my own. 

explain it.

If George Washington could watch WWI in 3-D, I doubt it would have much impact on him at all.  George Washington was born in 1732 and died before the turn of that century.  WWI was a war that was fought on foreign lands that lasted a few years commencing in 1914.  This was over 150 years in the future from when Washington was actively engaged in our new country's affairs.

Now, suppose I tell you that in 2172 Israel will be fighting Jordan and other Arab countries over several border disputes, what are you going to tell me?  As if you are going to give a **** about what happens to Israel and neighboring countries 150 years from now.  That's about how Washington would have felt about the same-old-same-old between the Turks, Russians, Germans, Italians and Romanians 150 years in the future.  He would likely say something like this:  "Be honest and just ourselves and exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.”