RE: terrorism
December 3, 2014 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2014 at 10:54 pm by Violet.)
(November 9, 2014 at 10:05 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't know about terrorism, I've never been close to an act of terror; but I lived through the 1978 revolution in Iran which overthrew the Shah, and I can tell you a bit about what it is to see your world get torn apart in violence.
Please do
I can use it (not for terrorism... or... maybe for terrorism, depending on whether I draw it right 
).(November 10, 2014 at 12:18 pm)xpastor Wrote:(November 9, 2014 at 7:58 pm)Alice Wrote: All dead soldiers are murdered, or die in accidents, or die to old age. In all regards: they die... and duty demands they die for their country. They are bound to this duty until the state, or the self, decrees that they are no longer soldiers.This is an utterly stupid statement, especially the words which I have bolded.
I refer you to General Patton's very sensible summary of a soldier's duty.
Quote:The good soldier is not the guy who dies for his country. The good soldier is the guy who makes the other poor bastard die for his country.
The man you have been dies the moment that you take that oath: you now belong to your state, mind and body... you are become a tool to be used.
Otherwise, you are not a soldier... you are just a man, outfitted to kill or to maintain, but with his own will. Every soldier has died, or they a soldier are not. It's that simple
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
