Scott Horton

It's called Human Smoke by Nicholas Baker.

And it's, oh, it's so interesting because, and by the way, Daryl Martyr Made, he points out that there are some errors in there.

It's not perfect.

But what it is, is you read that book, man, Human Smoke, and it is about how...

They just had off-ramp after off-ramp after off-ramp after off-ramp, and they just wouldn't take them.

They are just so determined to get us into this war.

And by us, I mean the Anglo-Americans, the English leaders.

And as Keith Knight pointed out in his review of Winston Churchill there, and I've heard this quote before, but where Churchill says, look, man,

He didn't give a damn about Nazi Germany and the evil of national socialism or any of that.

That wasn't it.

What it was about was Germany was the most powerful nation on the continent.

And English policy, as Churchill says, English policy going back centuries has been, whoever is the most powerful nation on the continent, we go to war against them to keep them from dominating the whole continent, to keep the balance of power.

He said, if it was the French right now, we'd go to war against France.

If it was Russia or Poland, then we go to war against them.

We're going to war against Germany because they're the most powerful.

And so that's long-term English policy.

And he was unable to say, well, wait a minute, is that actually the best idea in this case?

And especially after our experience in World War I, where we lost hundreds and millions, I almost said hundreds of thousands, millions of young guys got chewed up in this thing.

We're now...

mechanized warfare is just so much different than it had been in centuries past.