'Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
--Charles James Napier
The new head of the army will insist that they do.
Yes, I read that somewhere a long time ago. So true and yet the libs call us the barbarians.
Or this Napier line, which applies to Mexico...
so perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
Solomon-like brilliance.