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To: Jean2; nina0113
By coincidence, I just happened to be reading the incident in "One Million Dead," (by Jose Maria Gironella, on the Spanish Civil War) where the far-Left commander Buenaventura Durruti is leading a column of Anarchist troops to try to take the city of Zaragoza. The effort fails, partly just from anarchists-being-anarchists, and partly from the sexual disorder sweeping the ranks, with venereal diseases having a greater impact on the troops than even mortar injuries.

At one point Durruti separates out all the homosexuals and gonorrhea-infected militiawomen from his forces, puts them in boxcars, takes them off on a a railway siding, and mows them down with a machinegun.

Not my recommendation, by the way.

But it does show tht even the Left found that sexual disorder (including both females and homosexuals) is incompatible with combat-readiness.

19 posted on 11/30/2010 2:05:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Point of clarification.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Excellent find.


46 posted on 11/30/2010 6:38:02 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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