AI and Paradise - Part 1
"You shall have no other gods before me" holds no sway in Silicon Valley, in the OR, with the weatherman or in the White House.?
Col. Tim Collins explained the purpose of liberating Iraq with his eloquent speech to the troops: “We go North.” It’s been compared to the Gettysburg address and the gallant speeches of Henry V as penned by William Shakespeare.?
?The speech, which was made in Kuwait hours before British soldiers entered into battle, made headlines around the world. It’s even said to hang in the wall of the Oval Office.
"We go to liberate, not to conquer.
We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own.
?Show respect for them.
?There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly.
?Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send.
?As for the others, I expect you to rock their world.
?Wipe them out if that is what they choose.
?But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.
America has been magnanimous in victory. We rebuilt Europe and Japan after achieving victory in the Atlantic and Pacific after WWII. Closer to home, we rebuilt America after the Civil War.
Americans are the Great Rebuilders. For those who do not understand history, the current war in Ukraine is evidence of America’s New Manifest Destiny: to rebuild a world destroyed by war, violence and folly.?
Just as war persists in human history, so does folly:
and its current emanation is predicted by Alfred Thayer Mahan:
and Cordell Hull who avowed that the merchant fleet follows the flag:
The American fleet has taken to the air since Kitty Hawk:?During Orville's?convalescence , Katharine wrote Wilbur saying: “Brother has been suffering so much… and I am so dead tired when morning comes that I cannot hold a pen.” Orville later said that without the aid of his sister, he would have died.
The Wright brothers' endeavors were privately funded.[8] Early on, this funding came primarily from their own bicycle shop which Katharine managed.[7] She packed supplies for the Wright Brothers,[9] managed official correspondence, supplemented funding their continued work at Kitty Hawk with her stable income from teaching,[7] and provided solutions to problems not having to do directly with the planes or the mechanics behind it. Katharine helped Wilbur and Orville to negotiate a one-year extension of their contract with the U.S. Signal Corps. She also learned?French ?in order to speak with European dignitaries for her brothers during their exhibition trips funded by?Charles Ranlett Flint .[8]
New superpowers now attempt to replicate what Mahan foresaw as being conclusive in geopolitics, namely the forward deployment of naval forces.?
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Several exhortations will suffice to explain what America’s future role will be:?
You may fire when you are ready, Gridley - Admiral Dewey at Manila Bay?
True Grit
Charles Vernon Gridley
During the?Battle of Manila Bay ?on 1 May 1898, Gridley commanded the?Olympia from inside the vessel's armored conning tower, an uncomfortably hot station in the Philippine sun. Dewey gave his famous command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley".[1] At the conclusion of the battle, Gridley was not in a condition to celebrate, suffering from dysentery and what appears to have been liver cancer. The heat and stress of the conning tower further weakened him. Dewey would have relieved him of command had not Gridley protested.
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Wipe them out if that is what they choose.
?But if you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory.
Gaza
America is the Great Rebuilder. Courage is an American tradition:
If you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks -
Admiral William McCraven
General James Norman Mattis
Next: Rebuilding Ukraine?
Today, global trade in wheat, sunflower oil, auto parts and steel is fought over in an attempt by Russia to capture the Black Sea ports of Ukraine.?
A Testament to Human Stupidity