http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/08/18/quote-du-jour-84/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/08/18/quote-du-jour-84/comment-page-1/#comment-92492 oldgringo Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:28:28 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/08/18/quote-du-jour-84/#comment-92492 Von Moltke was a very prominent member of the "JUNKER Class" which is to say that he was born and bred to the ruling elite of his time, THE MILITARY. History has since written many volumes as to the price the world has had to pay for his "thinking" which was in no way exclusively his. That the general essence of this mind set now is to be found in the American Military Establishment is indicative of man's seeming inability to learn from the lessons of history, so often written in the blood of the innocent. Von Moltke was a very prominent member of the “JUNKER Class” which is to say that he was born and bred to the ruling elite of his time, THE MILITARY.
History has since written many volumes as to the price the world has had to pay for his “thinking” which was in no way exclusively
his. That the general essence of this mind set now is to be found in the American Military Establishment is indicative of man’s seeming inability to learn from the lessons of history, so often written in the blood of the innocent.

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