18-02-2009, 12:02 PM
Quote:If it costs $100,000 to defeat a $500 roadside bomb, that doesn’t sound like such a good strategy
Bt when you're busy making loadsa bucks, who cares about the cost - or a few soldiers killed because of a $500 (or much less?) IED?
If the US wanted to be an efficient war fighting machine it would find other solutions than throwing greenbacks at every obstacle it meets. But making bucks is the name of the game.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14