The key to victory is war is the realization that it never changes.
1 posted on
11/04/2003 1:53:26 PM PST by
BioForce1
To: BioForce1
Funny. I saw Kenneth Brannaugh's excellent film version of Harry V for the millionth time this weekend. It's a fine film and IMO the best adaptation done.
And man! Could the Bard lay down the prose or what!?
2 posted on
11/04/2003 2:04:23 PM PST by
Ribeye
(A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it.....)
To: BioForce1
Shakespeare also had a healthy distrust of the motivations of "statesmen" who send our soldiers to die in futile wars. The conservative Wilsonians who supported the Iraq crusade would do well to read this closely:
"Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of former days."
Henry IV, Part II: Act 4
To: BioForce1
HORATIO
You will lose this wager, my lord.
HAMLET
I do not think so: since he went into France, I have been in continual practise: I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart: but it is no matter.
HORATIO
Nay, good my lord,--
HAMLET
It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
HORATIO
If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.
HAMLET
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
4 posted on
11/04/2003 3:13:01 PM PST by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: BioForce1
That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
7 posted on
11/04/2003 4:17:35 PM PST by
tet68
(Patrick Henry ......."Who fears the wrath of cowards?")
To: BioForce1
You can't miss when you have good material!
8 posted on
11/04/2003 9:45:17 PM PST by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
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