Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
All thumbs today.
Sorry, one more time:
To America’s Generals
Lex, WTF? Common sense, I always thought that was obsolete. I heard our Government always wanted to build the perfect square, this is how we got the Pentagon. Does this tell you anything?
Seriously, if we don’t joke, at least a little bit, we’ll all go completely insane. I believe the whole milblogging community is trying to fathom out their own views on this war. There is absolutely no “B.S. Shortage”. We need to find workable answers to some very complex problems. The near future does not look good at all. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be glad to be wrong this time.
Yeah, I’ll read John’s observations, I may just jump in.
Thanks,
Grumpy