THRAWN RICKLE for Sunday, December 7, 2003

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Sunday, December 7, 2003

MAKE THE OTHER POOR DUMB BASTARD DIE FOR HIS COUNTRY

General George S. Patton once said a soldier should not strive to die for his country, but rather should “...make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” What is war? Why do we fight them? Is “civilized war” a meaningful concept? Can we realistically fight a war within a set of arbitrary rules? Over the course of nearly a century, Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell tried to convince the world that violence was not an acceptable way to solve differences, not only that violence was... Sign in to see full entry.

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