On 31 Dec 2003 20:24:11 GMT, ost (Chris Mark) wrote:

The idea of having the enemy hit us without our hitting
back any way we could was unthinkable. It shows weakness and gives the
inititive to the enemy, and once you have lost the initiative, you have lost
the war.

Is that a quote from George W. Bush?

Chris Mark

No, but this could be:

"War is an ugly thing, but it is 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. A man who has nothing for
which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own
personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being
free, unless made and kept so by better men than himself."

Actually it was written more than 150 years ago by John Stuart Mill. I
have no problem finding myself in one of Mill's groupings. Do you find
pride in identifying with the other?


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8