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
I recall, someone who designated a “Line of Death” somewhere “over that way,” a while back, and yes, it became just that…but for a few sailors of his own on a La Combatante….
Ironic? Maybe, or maybe just justice.
Do holes dug for enemy soldiers look any different than holes dug to dispose of inconvenient political dissidents?
Maybe the mullahs are thinking of cleaning house.
Why 320,000? Why not a half million. Or 144,000.
Awfully precise number, again. Perhaps like Guy says, house cleaning time. How many persons living alternative lifestyles still in Persia?
Heh. I was just thinking… gad, we don’t really have that many available. Wonder who they’re planning on inviting to their soiree? But I see others got there first.
Of course, were we to go in, it would simplify our disposal of enemy dead problems. Hmmm. I guess I’ll go check where they’re digging and run that against the OPLANS I’ve seen. Be interesting to see how they overlay one another.
allocate space for leach fields for me first, then allocate remainder (upstream) for Mortuary Affairs.
Lex, Full Autos down to the skidpad in a Huey were always an E-ticket moment. The last few seconds with the pilots and physics fighting for control over the airframe were always entertaining.
Thankfully the guys up front always did it right.
320K? Hmm, A-jad is definitely doing a purge.