RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
June 6, 2018 at 2:51 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2018 at 2:58 am by Amarok.)
Quote:I am Christian. Really different religion from Islam.
Not really
Quote: They do not recognize Jesus as the Son of God which He is.Does not matter and no he's a fictional character of a derpy mystery cult .
(June 6, 2018 at 2:50 am)CDF47 Wrote:None of that refutes my point that enemy troops, enemy prisoners or civilians can be used as cannon fodder against enemy lines .And the fact you had to turn to wikipedia shows you have no real knowledge .(June 6, 2018 at 2:42 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Actually yes you can. Commanders like Genghis Khan use to use captured enemy troops and enemy civilians as fodder . And Napoleon use to trick spanish artillery into blasting their own troops thus saving his . So enemies can be cannon fodder. Doesn't have to your own troops at all . You clearly don't know much military history.
Lastly your not worthy of being my enemy
Special pleading
Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term is generally used in situations where combatants are forced to deliberately fight against hopeless odds (with the foreknowledge that they will suffer extremely high casualties) in an effort to achieve a strategic goal; an example is the trench warfare of World War I. The term may also be used (somewhat pejoratively) to differentiate infantry from other forces (such as artillery troops, air force or the navy), or to distinguish expendable low-grade or inexperienced combatants from supposedly more valuable veterans.
The term derives from fodder, as food for livestock. Soldiers are the metaphorical food for enemy cannon fire.[1]
Etymology[edit]
The concept of soldiers as fodder, as nothing more than "food" to be consumed by battle, dates back to at least the 16th century. For example, in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 there is a scene where Prince Henry ridicules John Falstaff's pitiful group of soldiers. Falstaff replies to Prince Henry with cynical references to gunpowder and tossing bodies into mass grave pits, saying that his men are "good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better [men]...."
The first attested use of the expression "cannon fodder" supposedly belongs to a French writer, François-René de Chateaubriand. In his anti-Napoleonic pamphlet "De Bonaparte et des Bourbons", published in 1814, he criticized the cynical attitude towards recruits that prevailed in the end of Napoleon's reign: "On en était venu à ce point de mépris pour la vie des hommes et pour la France, d'appeler les conscrits la matière première et la chair à canon" — "the contempt for the lives of men and for France herself has come to the point of calling the conscripts 'the raw material' and 'the cannon fodder'."[2] The English term dates back at least to 1893[3]and was popularized during World War I.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_fodder
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