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Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed.....
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RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed.....
(August 2, 2014 at 6:28 pm)Hunafae!i Wrote: Sacrifice? I think not. Be careful what you wish for.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' ``Chuck him out, the brute!''
But it's ``Saviour of 'is country,'' when the guns begin to shoot;
Yes it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool--you bet that Tommy sees!

You completely and utterly missed Kipling's point, I think. He was writing about the maltreatment of soldiers, not about the eagerness of chicken hawks to wage unwinnable, unjustifiable wars.

And Kipling would have been among the first to praise Snowden for exposing illegal surveillances on private citizens.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Minimalist - August 2, 2014 at 4:55 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Hunafae!i - August 2, 2014 at 6:28 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 2, 2014 at 8:44 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Minimalist - August 2, 2014 at 8:30 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Mudhammam - August 2, 2014 at 9:00 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Minimalist - August 2, 2014 at 9:37 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Jackalope - August 2, 2014 at 9:53 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Minimalist - August 2, 2014 at 10:01 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Hunafae!i - August 3, 2014 at 3:56 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Anomalocaris - August 3, 2014 at 4:12 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by vorlon13 - August 3, 2014 at 5:30 pm
RE: Here's A Guy Who Sacrificed..... - by Anomalocaris - August 3, 2014 at 5:54 pm

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