Kipling:
Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan
brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the
Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of
the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the
East.”
My father, a three tour veteran of exotic & dangerous Asian locales, gave that passage from Kipling to me engraved on a brass plaque mounted on a nice piece of walnut.
If Billy Kristol and his neo-con preverts over at the Weakly Standard seek titillation over “boots on the ground,” let them go. They can give each other combat jacks.