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Re: [RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will! - Truman Prevatt

In modern times, from say about 1900 on, the prospect of the US going to war has never been a popular one with the public. This has been the case notwithstanding the fact that there was no other option and those with access to the intelligence data (the politicians) knew war was the only option, but they were somehow not capable of convincing the American people. It seemed it always take something to jar the US population into being willing to go to war (Pearl Harbor in WWII, the Zimmerman Telegram in WWI, etc.). Those wars where there was not a smoking gun were unpopular, e.g., Korea, Viet Nam. Maybe that is all good and one of the built in checks and balances. But at some point one has to tighten his/her belt and face the fact that war is the only option.

I'll end this with a quote from an anonymous solider (actually it's a quote from a very good friend of mine).

The Duty of the American Solider

The first duty of a solider is to tell the other side they should to talk to the State Dept.

The second duty of the solider is to convince the other side they need to talk to the State Dept.

The third duty of the solider, when all else fails, it to thump the other side so hard they want to talk to the State Dept.

The last duty of the solider is to die for his country.

The one thing you can be sure of - independent of how this all plays out - we have 1/4 million US service men and women in place to do their duty. Let's just hope if it comes it's quick and easy and they all come back home.

Back to endurance.

Truman



Bob Morris wrote:

How true, how true

Semper Fi

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

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With all the anti-war protests about, I wanted to share my favorite quote here. If you didn't already delete from the title and are not interested in this, which is NOT horse or endurance related, please delete now so I don't get flamed. :o) I always try to make sure my posts are endurance related, but just this once............

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The
decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that
nothing is worth war
is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable
creature and has no chance of being free unless made and
kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself.
                                         John Stuart Mill

:o)
Scott

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