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
We’re here to save your society. But don’t worry, we won’t be leaving until we destroy your economy. It’s for our chil’run. Nice yurt, BTW.
I’d do it again.
One can hope, right?
TOM ~ are you serious? You’re not honestly sitting there, criticizing the fact that we are working to eradicate opium poppies, are you? YGBSM.
OK, I’ll bite. What’s a yurt? LOL
Subsunk
Replacement for the “Igloo” and “Wigwam”;
http://www.yurtco.com/
Cheers
But, but, but… The Taliban are using more and more suicide bombers. Mean, evil, SCARY suicide bombers.
Why, everyone knows that suicide bombers are the most effective and terrifying use of force on the planet. They’ve been beating the crap out of the Americans in Iraq for years.
Just ask Harry Reid…
{/snerk}
I agree that the poppy fields are problematical. On the one hand, we don’t want more heroin out there. On the other, we’re fighting human nature in one of the most primitive countries in the world, where growing poppies can net a local farmer ten times what he gets for wheat or barley.
That local farmer is far more interested in what he can make for his family than what happens to some idiot addict in Europe or America, although I suspect a lot of this crop goes to Iran and other nearby countries.