Should be more careful about saving what I write

Now that Donnie is using the troops for what they are actually designed to do (protecting the country instead of running amok thousands of miles from here, I am saddened that I unceremoniously tossed the abortive beginnings of a book started a couple of years ago.

You see, one of the characters was an Army Captain in charge of a patrol in Texas, keeping out the barbarian hordes.

You see, we humans always sing the same song.  The core takes as much as they can from the periphery, the periphery grows too many people (after all, if you aren't rich, all you have left for entertainment is fucking), the periphery people take unwanted notice of the core's "nice stuff", and lay in their plans for an extended, multigenerational vacation.

The pictures to the right are of reconstructions of the gates of Roman forts in Germany.  Designed to keep the barbarians out of the Roman area.  They actually worked for quite a while.  Couple hundred years as a matter of fact.

But they did eventually fail.  But even one hundred years is worth it.  Donnie is right on this one, and the troops will have to come back home and bre re-deployed to keep the other folks out.

Because, despite what anyone else claims, there really isn't enough to go around now.  Even worse, the environmental and social collapse that the environment and economy are currently brewing is going to make things a lot worse.

I am all for buying the hundred or so years that the Limes Mexicanus and the Limes Canadisus will buy us.  I do this even knowing the final fate of such a project

Remainders of the The tower "WP 14/55" at the Upper German-Raetian border wall