Comments on: Book Review: The Father of Us All http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-father-of-us-all.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dennis McCormack http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-father-of-us-all.htm#comment-825707 Dennis McCormack Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:06:05 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682272#comment-825707 Steve, Are you the Steve Edwards I met in the 80's when you interviewed me for your writing on history of SEALs? If so, please get in touch. Thanks, Dennis McCormack UDT-12 (1959-62) ST-1 (1962-65) 3409 Kennelworth Ln Bonita, CA 91902 (619) 434-9976 Steve,

Are you the Steve Edwards I met in the 80's when you interviewed me for your writing on history of SEALs? If so, please get in touch.

Thanks,

Dennis McCormack
UDT-12 (1959-62)
ST-1 (1962-65)

3409 Kennelworth Ln
Bonita, CA 91902
(619) 434-9976

]]> By: Steve Edwards http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-father-of-us-all.htm#comment-682667 Steve Edwards Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:38:17 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682272#comment-682667 Your statement is more than adequately debunked in his book, if you had bothered to take the time to read it thoroughly. You disagree with his premise that war is something that exists and likely will exist by hand waving thousands of years of history away. You don't want to take war "as a given" but offer no examples of how that can happen, logically and historically. Sure, we'd all agree that there are MUCH better ways to resolve conflicts than war, and Hansen discusses many of them, particularly the notion that it is exceptional when democracies go to war with other democracies. But the fact that the world is full of dictatorships, autocracies, theocracies, and the like, makes clear that should you wish to continue to live in a democracy, you'll inevitably come up against a foe who wishes to deny that existence to you. What you do then will define what the world becomes, not simply a blanket statement that war should not be taken as a given. Your statement is more than adequately debunked in his book, if you had bothered to take the time to read it thoroughly. You disagree with his premise that war is something that exists and likely will exist by hand waving thousands of years of history away. You don't want to take war "as a given" but offer no examples of how that can happen, logically and historically. Sure, we'd all agree that there are MUCH better ways to resolve conflicts than war, and Hansen discusses many of them, particularly the notion that it is exceptional when democracies go to war with other democracies. But the fact that the world is full of dictatorships, autocracies, theocracies, and the like, makes clear that should you wish to continue to live in a democracy, you'll inevitably come up against a foe who wishes to deny that existence to you. What you do then will define what the world becomes, not simply a blanket statement that war should not be taken as a given.

]]> By: barry Sullivan http://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-father-of-us-all.htm#comment-306969 barry Sullivan Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:18:15 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682272#comment-306969 Hansen's underlying thesis: human beings are ineluctably violent in the resolution of the sorts of issues of which man has historically gone to war, gives little comfort. We must develop effective means of resolving conflicts short of war, not take bellicosity and its destructive progeny as a given, Hansen's underlying thesis: human beings are ineluctably violent in the resolution of the sorts of issues of which man has historically gone to war, gives little comfort. We must develop effective means of resolving conflicts short of war, not take bellicosity and its destructive progeny as a given,

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