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  • JollyJ Offline
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    I mentioned Ia Drang the other day. A perspective from an officer who was there...

    Link to video

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      The military is a good deal until you have to go to war. But even then, some enjoy it. I remember an anecdote from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Some famous scientist, I can't remember who, had gone to war as a young man, and really enjoyed all the killing he got to do.

      Education is extremely important.

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        #3

        There was a saying something like:

        "The only people who think war is a glorious adventure are those who have never been in one."

        (BTW, interesting video history)

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          The military is a good deal until you have to go to war. But even then, some enjoy it. I remember an anecdote from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Some famous scientist, I can't remember who, had gone to war as a young man, and really enjoyed all the killing he got to do.

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          @Horace said in Drang it...:

          The military is a good deal until you have to go to war. But even then, some enjoy it. I remember an anecdote from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Some famous scientist, I can't remember who, had gone to war as a young man, and really enjoyed all the killing he got to do.

          Oppenheimer?

          "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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