+1 +freaking1Indeed, let's dump a bunch of weapons in to Africa and try to play God in a small third world conflict. And when those weapons end up killing babies in the Congo in 10 years, I'm sure we'll all be suitably outraged. Have we learned nothing? At least when we did this in the Cold War it was based on broader strategic concerns and not pure emotion.
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There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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