I can see your argument here Pete, but I don't subscribe to it. Below
are a couple of quotes from Apocalypse Now that probably come close to
your feeling about the tactics that should be used to win war:
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a
hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't
find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that
gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this
war's gonna end...
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I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to
call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do
that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to
describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means.
Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror.
Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are
enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with
Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to
inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the
children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was
crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked
off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little
arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother.
I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I
want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.
And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a
diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My
God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect,
genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were
stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters.
These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their
hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love...
but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten
divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You
have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to
utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without
passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment
that defeats us.
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Regards,
LelandJ
petetheisen wrote:
Leland Jackson wrote:
Aaaah, "Apocalypse Now"**; so you're familiar with the movie. It was
a great movie, and the actor, Robert Duvall**, **who delivered the
famous line, "I love the smell of napham in the morning . . . . . . .
smells like . . like victory.", was equating the smell of napham
with Victory
Hi Leland!
For some reason, we have not been using NAPALM in the war on terror.
Perhaps because you have misspelled it twice, tsk, tsk.
I think napalm would have gotten the Taliban right the hell out of
those trenches a few years ago, but they just didn't use it. If we had
used napalm, many of those who are now opposing our interests in
Afghanistan would have been fried and would not be an issue now.
Regards,
Pete
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