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To: Minus9Hours
In the week following 9/11 I went out and bought a complete collection of Kipling's poetry. So many of the poems seem to fit our times just as well as they fit his.

It's a pity politically correct idiots will ruin any public reading with their screeching against his language. "The White Man's Burden" also seems a propos. Interestingly it was written about the American involvement in the Philippeans after the Spanish-American War, not about the British Empire.

26 posted on 04/08/2003 10:34:03 AM PDT by The_Reader_David
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To: The_Reader_David
Kipling was a genius. He KNEW.

By the way, the "lesser breeds without the Law" in "The White Man's Burden" was not referring to anybody that the politically correct assume it does . . . but specifically to Leopold, King of the Belgians, and the scandal of his exploitation of the Belgian Congo for his personal gain.

28 posted on 04/08/2003 12:50:43 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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