And liberals are from URANUS.
This liberal is most definitely from URANUS!
Posted on 06/24/2004 9:02:59 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Wow... this sounds like the definition of a modern-day Democrat.
Major Ben understands Asia and Asians. That is an excellent way to put it.
In his description of the Iraqis, he has described children.
Children who do not evolve or mature, whose development is arrested, become spoiled and unreasonable adults, like this.
It is a culture which was arrested.
The description also reminds me of that class of people common to welfare who do not, have never, disciplined themselves and who make NO demands upon themselves, whatsoever. These people require and also resent the kind of paternalistic government which will provide for their every want and which will place no restrictions or demands upon the recipients' continuation it his state.
We would be doing the Iraqi People, and ourselves, a favor if we crushed them ruthlessly before attempting rebuilding.
So9
And liberals are from URANUS.
The man who wrote the children's book, "The Little Prince"*, also wrote books about his time with the Arabs in the 1920's and '30's. If I was a commander and knew my unit was going to The Middle Eastern Theater, I would have company commanders, platoon leaders and platoon sergeants read two books by the same author: " Wind, Sand and Stars" and "Wisdom of the Sands". They are excellent studies on Arab culture and the Arab mentality. These two books reinforce the observations of Major Ben Connable, First Marine Division. Prior knowledge and understanding of Arab duplicity would have saved lives on both sides.
*Antoine De Saint Exupery. Pilot, philosopher. He Flew P-38's for the free French in WWII. Went MIA in 1944. Never found.
It does, doesn't it. One of the dirty little secrets about welfare that the Left refuses to understand.
Maybe that's how it will all shake out. One more welfare state.
I hope not. We support too many nations as it is.
That may be a good description for a great number of "primitive" cultures.
A great book about 1870's Arizona by the wife of a cavalry officer described the Apaches she was living with as "natures children". They had simply not yet learned the lesson's previously learned by Christian European culture.
Lewis & Clark's description of their interaction with Sioux leaders reminds me of an adolescent gang. Any one of the "leaders" was likely to do anything. There was no law, there was no sense of right and wrong. If something was acquired by thievery or violence, there was no dishonor in that.
Modern historians trash the United States with regard to how we treated the American Indians. I submit that we did the best we could with a culture that was not unlike the Intifada culture of the Palestinians. It is impossible to live with them as equals, because they will simply kill you on a whim. Their culture must be destroyed and the remnants assimilated into proper civilization. Sad, but necessary.
Modern tools of war are simply incompatible with primitive cultures. Those cultures will take those war tools and use them indiscriminately. Since the tools cannot be un-invented, the primitive culture must be.
I believe I read something about that a few years ago. I'm thinking they found his P-38 in a harbor.
My uncle was all over the ME when I was a kid. He'd come back home and say things. One was "the Arab idea of truth is whatever they can get you to believe. And that has nothing to do with the actual truth".
The Arab idea of truth is not like "ours".
My uncle also said "we would regret ever doing business with the Arabs". And, that "most Arab men are queers".
That was my uncle. A mans man.
"Despite the fact we were losing on the field, Fallujah was a victory because you did not finish the attack...."
Yes, there was some P-38 wreckage found in a harbor in the Mediterranean, just off the the city of Marseilles coast. The find is suggestive, but not definitive. There are no numbers on any part of the wreckage found to confirm that it is "St. Ex's" plane. BTW, he was the oldest fighter pilot of the war. He was 40 years old when he disappeared while flying un-armed, photo-recon, PR-38's across Europe from No. Africa and back. His writings have had a profound influence on my life. I put "St. Ex" right up there with T. Jefferson.
Charles Lindbergh was about 42 when he was flying P-38's and Corsairs in the South Pacific (born 1902). Of course, he wasn't "official" since he wasn't in the military. But he was under fire, his last P-38 flight was attacked by a japanese plane.
In typical Lindbergh fassion, after being refused permission to fly Army P-38's after the near shoot down, he went to the Marines and started flying Corsairs. He discovered they were flying bombing runs with only 500lb bombs, but he believed they could carry more. So he did test flights in the field where he gradually increased the bomb load. When they loaded the 2000 pounders, it bent the bomb rack on takeoff. So he designed a method to strengthen the rack, and began flying actual bombing runs with something like 3x-4x the original bomb weight carried by the Corsair.
Lindbergh wasn't a philosopher, but an interesting guy. Too bad FDR trashed his reputation for political purposes. The Dems have been doing that for decades.
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