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Page A4 — Weekend Edition, May 11,2014, Sapulpa Daily Herald
The Sapulpa Daily Herald
Opinion
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Preparing for War, Keeping Peace
H) RICH TUC KER
Exactly a century ago. the
leading lights of Europe
seemed to believe that war was
impossible. One of the era’s
most successful books. "The
Great Illusion” by journalist
Norman Angell. asserted that
tiade. not violence, was the
way of the future.
He was wrong, but not
completely wrong.
Yes. in 1914 the Western
world mobilized in August.
World War I killed some 15
million people, and would be
followed by World War II and
a series of skirmishes during
the Cold War. More than 100
million people were killed in
conflicts during the 20th cen-
tury.
Ian Morris, a professor at
Stanford, noted recently in The
Washington Post, about 2 per-
cent of the planet's population
died violently in that century.
Compare that to the Stone
Age. when roughly 20 percent
of a much smaller population
died violently. Modern
hutnans are living much
longer, safer, more productive
lives. Why?
Morris attributes this over-
all decline to the formation of
nation-states. Beginning in the
1600s. "Europeans exported
unprecedented amounts of vio-
lence around the world. The
consequences were terrible;
and y et they created the largest
societies yet seen, driving rates
ol violent death lower than
ever before," he writes.
Such successful govern-
ments included the United
States. It was powerful enough
to civil rights and protect prop-
erty rights, so citizens could
own the fruits of their labor,
yet limited enough in size and,
scope to encourage private
innovation.
The planet enjoyed its first
period of peaceful growth
because of Great Britain,
Morris argues. "Its wealth
came from exporting goods
and services, | so] it used its
financial and naval muscle to
deter rivals from threatening
the international order.” When
the age of British dominance
finally ended during World
War II, the United States
stepped up to fill London’s
role of maintaining global
order. “Like its predecessor,
the United States oversaw a
huge expansion of trade,
intimidated other countries
into not making wars that
would disturb the world order,
and drove rates of violent
death even lower,” Morris
writes.
But in an unsettling way,
2014 looks a bit like 1914. For
example, the global intelli-
gentsia seem to think they’ve
banished war. They’ve certain-
ly banished most war-spend-
ing, which — ironically - as
history has shown, leads to
more war.
The United States is the
only developed economy that
invests 4 percent of GDP in
defense. After the U.K. at 2.5
percent and France at 2.3 per-
cent , things go downhill quick-
ly, with Germany at less than 2
percent and Japan less than I
percent. Still-developing
China spends 2 percent.
It's a positive that the
developed world is comfort-
able trusting the U.S. military.
And it’s a positive that the
developed world thinks it has
put war behind it. But in his
book, “Civilization and Its
Enemies," Lee Harris points to
what he calls an unsettling par-
adox. "The more the spirit of
commerce triumphs, the closer
mankind comes to dispensing
with war, the nearer we
approach the end of history,
the greater are the rewards to
those who decide to return to
the path of war,” he writes.
Witness Russia in Crimea
and, potentially, the whole of
Ukraine. And should the
Russians decide to go another
few steps, consider the former
Soviet Socialist Republic of
Latvia. It's in a tough neigh-
borhood, right up against
Russia. But it has almost no
military; only 6,000 active
troops and 11,000 reservists,
financed by less than 1 percent
of its GDP. It’s counting on
NATO to protect it.
Whether NATO, which
really means the U.S., will be
there is the big question.
The world has reason to
wonder whether Washington
remains up for its long-time
role of global leader. “What
would America fight for?” the
cover of The Economist asks.
The magazine points out that
Barack Obama has weakened
his position by ignoring his
own "red line" over Syria, and
by imposing nearly irrelevant
sanctions over Ukraine. As
even The Washington Post’s
David Ignatius admits, “under
Obama, the United States has
suffered some real reputational
damage."
In fact, it’s difficult to think
of a single country the U.S. has
better relations with today than
it did during the George W.
Bush years. We’ve even man-
aged to anger Canada
(Keystone XL) and Britain
(Churchill bust).
Perceptions matter. "Rogue
states will behave more rogu-
ishly if they doubt America’s
will to stop them,” The
Economist points out. And, “In
a world full of bluffers, the
ruthless will rule,” as Harris
writes.
There’s no reason the 21st
century can’t be even more
peaceful and profitable than
the 20th was. American leader-
ship, though will be key.. '
One Step Closer to the
Truth on Benghazi
It has been almost two years
since the horrific Benghazi terror-
ist attack occurred, taking the
lives of four innocent, brave
Americans; however we continue
to seek answers from the
Administration on what took
place that day.
Since 2012, House committees
have worked tirelessly to investi-
gate the tragic attack, and they
have uncovered many facts.
Unfortunately, while House
Republicans continue working to
seek justice, the Obama
Administration continues
stonewalling. To make matters
worse, it was recently revealed that
the White House withheld information regarding
Benghazi from Congressional investigators. It
causes me grave concern to know the White
House refuses to assist and provide pertinent
information regarding an attack that killed four of
our fellow citizens.
Due to the Administration’s lack of coopera-
tion and the revelation they withheld information,
Speaker of the House, John Boehner announced
ihe formation of a select committee to help uncov-
er the truth about Benghazi. We recently voted in
Frank Lucas
U.S. Congress
Frankly Speaking
the House to create the committee
officially named. “The House
Select Committee on the Events
Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist
Attack in Benghazi." The select
committee will consist of 12
House members, chaired by Rep.
Trey Gowdy (R-SC), a member of
the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee.
The formation of this commit-
tee will provide an avenue for
Congress to assert its oversight
function, without being hindered
by the bureaucratic stovepiping
that has stalled the Benghazi
investigation. It is my hope that the
work of this committee will reveal
the entire truth of what actually happened that
night in Benghazi.
I am very pleased leaders of the House have
finally decided to take the next step in uncovering
the truth and compel the Administration to be
forthcoming with vital information. Americans
will not tolerate the negligence shown by the
White House, and I can assure you we will con-
tinue working to seek justice fori the Americans
who lost their lives on September 11,2012.
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor:
Hnzzah. Huzzah. Camp Boondoggle has
finally risen from the swamp and weeds, and is
now officially open for business. Now the
Creek County tax payers will begin to see the
To the Editor:
How many times have we
put our children on a swing in a
public park? Public parks
should be safe places for chil-
dren but last week a perverted
kidnapper snatched a little girl
off her swing in broad daylight,
prompting an Amber Alert on a
very vague description of his
car.
Later that night an intoxicat-
ed driver drove through a
Sapulpa restaurant pick up lane
and an alert restaurant worker
called 911. The car matched the
Amber Alert description.
A Creek County deputy
responded and was injured try-
ing to restrain the driver as he
drove away. That’s when the
Sapulpa, Tulsa, and Kellyville
Police Departments. Creek
County and Tulsa County
Sheriffs’ Departments, the
Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and
other law enforcement agencies
responded. Within a couple of
hours they had located and cap-
tured the driver of the car who
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The Blackest Crow
size of the $5.4 million elephant in the room.
Camp Boondoggle, will it be a Phoenix or a
money pit, a pig-in-a-poke or an Albatross?
Time will tell, if no one cooks the books.
G. Brunk. Sapulpa
Who could blame her?
After all, don’t all mothers
have a tendency to think that
their children are the "black-
est crows in the pasture”?
But, once in a while, that
mother just might be right....
This mother came from a
good family but as a child she
was often sick and her parents
considered her not healthy
enough to attend school.
Besides, in that day and age, it
wasn’t considered all that
important that girls even get
an education-their husbands
would take care of them.
Even though she didn’t
receive a formal education,
her mother did teach her and
her older sisters how to read
and write and her father,
uncle, and grandfather all had
large libraries where they
could study English and
French literature and this little
girl “Abby” jumped at the
chance.
In fact her husband-to-be
was attracted to the shy 17
year old brunette when he first
visited her home, not just for
her looks, but because she
knew so much about poetry,
philosophy, and politics.
Such a well-educated, well
rounded woman was unusual
for the day.
They were soon married by
her father who was a well-
respected Congregationalist
minister in their community.
He approved of the marriage
but her mother was skepti-
cal-her new son in law was a
backwoods country lawyer
with manners to match and
just not up to the “standards"
of well heeled young men in
Weymouth, Massachusetts.
After the wedding the
bride mounted the back of the
groom’s horse and they rode
to their “honeymoon" cottage
that her husband John had
inherited from his father in
nearby Braintree,
Massachusetts. Later the cou-
ple moved to Boston where
John upgraded his law prac-
tice-and his manners.
John was often gone from
the family farm for long trips,
but he was home enough for
the couple to have five chil-
dren. Abby was a dutiful-and
doting-wife and mother and
kept the “home fires” burning
for their large family.
John rose in the ranks
politically and was appointed
the American envoy to France
in 1798 and their oldest son,
who was only eleven years
old. accompanied him. So her
son, also named John after his
father, was the "first kid on
the block" to go overseas.
The following year John Jr.
began writing a diary that he
kept until just before he died
in 1848. Today it’s one of the
richest sources of information
about life in early America.
In 1780 John Sr. was reas-
signed to the Netherlands and
John Mark Young
Some Things Never
Change
took John Jr. with him where
he got a formal education at
Leiden University. At age
fourteen he went to St.
Petersburg. Russia with
another American diplomat to
help obtain diplomatic recog-
nition of the new United
States.
He also became fluent in
Latin, Greek, French and
other European languages and
traveled through Finland.
Sweden, and Denmark. By
the time he came back to
America and entered Harvard
University, he'd already trans-
lated Virgil, Horace. Plutarch,
and Aristotle. He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa in 1787 and
followed his father into the
practice of law in Boston in
1791.
Two years later President
George Washington appointed
Abby’s “little boy” to serve as
the American minister to the
Netherlands at age 26. In
1796 he was transferred to
Portugal. Washington thought
so much of his ability that he
called him “the most valuable
of America's officials
abroad." At Washington’s
urging, the next president
appointed him to be minister
to Prussia and later to Russia.
Between diplomatic posts,
he served as a professor of
logic at Brown University.
Secretary of State, and was
elected to serve a term in the
U.S. Senate and a later term in
Congress. He also served as
minister to Great Britain and
negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
that ended the War of 1812.
Still not convinced that
Abby was right when she
thought her son was the
“blackest crow in the pas-
ture"?
In 1825 her son John
Quincy Adams was elected to
serve as the sixth President of
the United States. Sadly, his
proud mother Abigail Adams
did not live to see her son
become President. She died ,
in 1818 at age 71 of typhoid
fever, a disease that today
could be easily treated with
antibiotics.
She did live to see her hus-
band John Adams become
President of the United States
in 1797. She was the second
First Lady until 1801.
Abigail Adams became
famous in her own right-as a
feminist way ahead of her
time. In an era when women
were not even allowed to
manage their own property,
she advised her husband, the
President, to "remember the
ladies, and be more generous
and favorable to them than
your ancestors. Do not put
such unlimited power into the
hands of the husbands.
Remember all men would be
tyrants if they could.”
She followed that with a
warning that “if particular
care and attention is not paid
to the ladies, we are deter
mined to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves
bound by any laws in which
we have no voice or represen-
tation.” And, to think, the
men of her day thought King
George of England was tough
to deal with!!!
Abigail Adams held the
distinction of being the only
woman to be both the wife
and mother of a President
until Barbara Bush showed up
in our day with her two
Georges.
Perhaps the greatest tribute
that could be paid to Abigail
Adams was from her son John
Quincy. In the diary he kept
all of his life he often wrote of
his devotion to God and his
belief that His Providence had
shaped the destiny of our
nation. He also fondly credit-
ed his mother for passing on
her own belief in God to him
as a child on her lap....
Happy Mother’s Day from
one of America’s greatest
"Founding Mothers”!
apparently had kidnapped and
molested the girl.
Against all odds for her sur-
vival and by the grace of God,
this precious little girl was
shortly found alive in the woods
near where the kidnapper was
captured. To all those dedicated
law enforcement officers who
put their lives on tk. « every
day to keep us safe, we owe you
a debt we can never repay.
Many (hanks to all of you for
a joo well done!
John Mark Young
Survey- Voters unsure of
Medicare benefits
From Ihe Rasmussen Reports
Most voters still have a favorable opinion of
Medicare but think they are unlikely to receive
all their promised benefits.
A new Rasmussen Reports national tele-
phone survey finds that 63 percent of Likely
U.S. Voters have at least a somewhat unfavor-
able opinion of the Medicare system, including
23 percent with a Very Favorable opinion.
Thirty-two percent view the federal health
system for retired Americans unfavorably,
including 10 percent with a Very Unfavorable
view.
The survey of 1.000 Likely Voters was con-
ducted on May 5-6 by Rasmussen Reports. The
margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage
points with a 95 percent level of confidence
Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is
conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
There is nobody in this country who
got rich on his own...”
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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