There is something the moralists overlook, Or more likely dont give a damn about, When they cry: Pity the beaten foe! What theyre saying, in effect, is: Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today. But they dont care to have it put to them like that. They want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience; Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers lives.
General Sir Harry P. Flashman "Flashman and the Mountain of Light" George McDonald Fraser
2 posted on 05/24/2017 8:24:25 AM PDT by BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)