: Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori? Latin is a beautiful language. So floral and silken. It is also
dead and useless except in the smallest little esoteric corners of
this planet - which makes your choosing it so ironic. It is
perfectly analogous to your ideaology in this way.
: I'm sure it comes as a great relief to the collateral wounded and dying to know that the bullet that did it was US-made, rather than Russian-made.
Lead is lead Farinata. Imperialistic communism is not democracy
though. Maybe you don't value freedom as I do but whatever freedom
you or I have was once fought for or defended by a soldier. Christ
said that "Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his
life for his brother". Many soldiers have died defending our freedom
against imperialistic communism.
Let us try to put this into very viceral terms.
Communism is being indicted for the deaths of up to 100,000,000
people as it is counted in "The Black Book of Communism" currently
stirring up quite a pot in France at the moment.
100 million dead bodies.
If you line them up head to toe it would wrap around the earth 4
times. If you give them the dignity of an isolated grave, we could
bury them in an area the size of 33,500 soccer fields. If you wish
to bury them at sea and say one minute's worth of kindness about
each one, it will take you 190 years to finish. If we use Frode's
example, the Soviets would have to shoot one K.A.L. 747 out of the
sky every day for 782 years.
It is going to be very difficult for you to dispute the facts of
this case. "The Black Book of Communism" was compiled by a very
well respected group of six professors. The only quarrels seem to
be whether it was 85 or 100 million. The Third Reich was responsible
for a sum total of one quarter that of godless communism. Does the
wishful accusation of capitalistic genocide really stack up to the
realities of this world Farinata? Or are collectivists now, having
suffered defeat, resorting to nonsense like this to generate support?
: If there's a noble use for military might, I can't think of it ever seeing the light of day. The very most you can say is that it can be used to defend yourself against someone else's military might. Which means that the justification for military might is the existence of military might - a circular position, and not one solved by tooling up with more firepower.
Do you then suggest unilateral disarmament by the nicer nations?
6000 years of recorded human history should warn against that plan.
Stuart Gort
