[lit-ideas] Re: HOW IT IS
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 07:37:17 -0700 (PDT)
Military virtues start to make sense if taken as a cover for the vice of
incompetence. The whole operation was misplanned and badly executed, but our
troops died gloriously. Or as Paola, the wife of Inspector Brunetti, in one of
Donna Leon's books comments on Berlusconi sending troops to aid: "Is that a
threat, or an offer?"
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- On Sat, 6/7/08, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: HOW IT IS
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008, 2:45 AM
> ALL veterans I have ever met are quite suspicious of rules.
> They not
> only know how stupid they usually are, but they also know
> how to
> circumvent them
> to get the job done when necessary. But veterans tend to be
> in support
> of duty, honor, and the defense of the country, which
> (unfortunately)
> gets labeled
> "conservative."
>
> There is no contradiction between seeing how many REALLY
> REALLY stupid
> rules the military can come up with, and a suspicion that
> government may
> not
> be the best judge of what we should do...
>
> Lawrence Helm wrote:
> >> And . . . I wonder why no one has ever suggested
> an inconsistency
> >> between my conservatism and my dislike of rules.
>
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