On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 12:53:58 PM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
Slightly off topic, but I can't help but think that this is another
part of the larger issue of why we haven't won a war since 1945.*
When I was a young Air Force pilot in the early 70s I thought then
that the flight regulations were written for the lowest common
denominator.* I guess things have not improved since then.

I don't think they have, regulations are just the minimum standards, would you prefer you have average speed limits? If you raise the standard, then you have just set a new lowest common denominator, and are eternally in a snake eating itself kind of intelligent thought.

We haven't won a war since 1945 because we haven't declared one since 1941....