Okay, Still Not Real Happy

      But here's where we are: I expect World War Three has already started.  Nobody's called it yet and we're just at the "one nation attempts expansion by warfare" stage.  It's still getting itself sorted out into teams and who knows?  It might yet fizzle.

      Past history tells me that's not the way to bet.  Leaders of violently expansionist nations don't get what Nero got as often as we might wish, if ever.

      We're in a time of choosing sides.  Readers of history would do well to remember Charles Lindbergh and the older "America First" movement he was associated with.  To be sure, "Lucky Lindy" eventually saw the light -- but he was not allowed to enlist, never permitted anywhere near the European Theater of Operations and only saw air combat in the Pacific by arriving as a consultant and doing some of his consulting from the pilot's seat.

      The Lusitania is nowhere near leaving port, let alone being sunk; there's nothing ominous droning towards Pearl Harbor.  But water runs downhill and it eventually reaches the bottom.

      I hope we're lucky this time.  Dam lucky.