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
Always said we could end the war by parachuting a few cases of Jack Daniels into the Tali-tubbies backyards and let them get taste….
This is worth the blood and treasure we are expending there to do something in Afghanistan?
We cannot save everyone, and the human debris cluttering many of our cities are barely beyond this stage of degeneracy.
Perhaps our efforts would be better spent trying to restore/instill decency and civility and freedom among our own citizenry.
As if there is any type of central, meaningful Central Authority in the AF.
The AF’s will continue with their grotesque, abusive and morally repugnant ways regardless of what is put on paper.
I don’t really give a rats a$$ about the Afghanis – I think it’s worthwhile to kill as many Taliban as possible on that side of the world. They supported Bin Ladin so it’s personal.
best not let them see the “Gay Pride” stuff, or they’ll realise how wrong they are to swear off using boys as sex slaves.