Smedley Butler

[Egg]

New Year's gift. I'll be stomping on your shvantz again next week.

L'chaim!!!

L'shvantz!!!

[Dr Exile]

Fred Reed.

Someone once said (me, actually) that the Brits fought for empire, the French for la gloire de la France, the Russins to steal watches from the wounded, and Americans for vague moral platitudes. Exactly. There's no need to know what you are doing, only to have good intentions, or say that you do, or believe it when someone who wants military contracts says it......

America bumbles about the world like a blind man, and doesn't know it. Its contempt for everywhere else, its inability to conceive that maybe other peoples and places don't want to be like America, leads to disaster after dsiaster. Washington was going to invade Iraq, which with gratitude would go all democratic and be like Massachusetts, and the other Arab nations would follow suit....

In ten years the Pentagon can't beat a few tens of thousands of peasants armed with AKs. Nobody else's army could do it either. Thing is, everybody else has figured out that such wars don't work too well. Not us.

[Egg]

I like Fred Reed.

That's a great piece, Marty. Thanks.

[lkwalker]

BE2
11-06-2010, 01:57 PM
The Soldier's Tale A collaboration

Your'e paid to stop a bullet
It's a solders job they say
And so you stop the bullet
And then they stop your pay.

catching lead, it ain't well paid
but ne'er did he complain
t'was worth a hero's valor
for a second's worth of pain.

And in the end the trumpet sounds-
a hero in a bag
a soldier gets the wooden box
the widow gets the flag

©Exile-Afterburn Productions, 2010, with apologies to Kipling

[Pigeon]

[lkwalker]

Dr Exile had him in cold storage in the hold of the Zipulator.

[Dr Exile]

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