Treacherous
When Napoleon sailed to invade Malta, instead of meeting spirited resistance from the heavily-fortified island, it fell without a shot. According to Desaix, "They were sold."Treachery seems to have fallen out of favor in modern times. Modern leaders would rather send 120,000 KBR private employees to Iraq, pay them from the national treasury, and let future generations pick up the tab. Or this generation, since oil prices just reached an historic high.
Bribery of nations not to commence certain actions by promising future rewards, removing sanctions, or straightforward invasion if that fails, is now the plain-speaking, plain-dealing, straight-shooting American way. Treachery, finesse, espionage have fallen by the wayside, along with the bodies of so many troops.
Moo!
posted by The Topiary Cow at
11:48 AM
2 Comments:
A friend of mine is over there now. It makes me just furious to hear some of the stories he tells. Horrible stuff, this. Yes. I'll be tuned in to this election cycle. I'm just one vote, but you know, something's got to give.
Yes, there needs to be a clean-up in our Foreign Policy.
And I'm not just saying that because of my profession.
It is fascinating to this janitor that the strategy of utilizing National Guard instead of draftees has been the only change from Vietnam, but it was effective in almost totally shutting down all protest.
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