All true - and since prolonging a war by
using half measures in an attempt to reduce the suffering caused almost invariably ends up in prolonging that war (usually immeasurably) and thus inducing even more suffering it seems a short sighted, illogical and even inhumane approach to me.
But I'm just a uneddicated grunt... :D
And Mugabe is just misunderstood
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SteveMetz
I must add that anthropologists may today's masters of 1960s intellectual leftist silliness, but they don't have a monopoly. I was at an AFRICOM conference at the Pentagon Doubletree yesterday listening to a historian basically make the argument that training African militaries is a bad idea since it simply made them more effective at repressing "the people."
Yeah, I've heard that argument as well :rolleyes:. Recently, I've been thinking that if Africom wanted to start off on the right foot, they should do some live fire training in Zimbabwe ;).
I'm always a bit leery...
of anything that starts with "KY" :eek:
Now that I got the KYFHO site to load...
I agree. That is also a basic tenent of traditional martial arts.