Comments on: Spinning Madness http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/03/01/spinning-madness/ I'm getting there. What's the rush? It's about the journey, right? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:48:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Phil Springer http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/03/01/spinning-madness/#comment-2846 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:55:24 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/03/01/spinning-madness/#comment-2846 Your take on the Iraq War brought me back to remember Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book called the March of Folly. The Iraq War II reeks of woodenheadedness that Ms Tuchman illustrates in 4 distinct periods in history; 1. The leaders of Troy bringing in the Trojan horse 2. The Renaissance popes provocation of the Protestant secession 3 The British lose America, and 4 America betrays herself in Viet Nam. In the Epilogue Ms Tuchman writes " Aware of the controlling power of ambition, corruption and emotion, it may be that in the search for wiser grovernment we should look for the test of character first" In the end she quotes John Adams in saying that government is "little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago" Your take on the Iraq War brought me back to remember Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book called the March of Folly. The Iraq War II reeks of woodenheadedness that Ms Tuchman illustrates in 4 distinct periods in history; 1. The leaders of Troy bringing in the Trojan horse 2. The Renaissance popes provocation of the Protestant secession 3 The British lose America, and 4 America betrays herself in Viet Nam.

In the Epilogue Ms Tuchman writes ” Aware of the controlling power of ambition, corruption and emotion, it may be that in the search for wiser grovernment we should look for the test of character first”

In the end she quotes John Adams in saying that government is “little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago”

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