Thank you, John Dolan
May. 21st, 2004 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbe"The Greeks and Romans were honest about conquest. They divided the task into two parts: first you vanquish the enemy on the battlefield, and then you rape every single man, woman and child among the conquered. They were just as systematic about this phase of the operation as the campaign that preceded it. The troops may have been weary, but somehow they found the devotion to duty to impress their tribal superiority on their defeated enemies in the most direct, practical sense: by f******* **** ** *** ***."
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Date: 2004-05-21 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-21 11:26 am (UTC)i had a dear friend, a survivor of iwo jima, who used to argue forcibly that the only valid reason for war was rape, pillage and plunder. Anything else was just a smokescreen and a fraud.
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Date: 2004-05-21 01:25 pm (UTC)Not saying that'd be a wonderful thing -- it'd might well be fatal to me, in fact -- but the honesty would at least provide a bit of refreshing schadenfreude.
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Date: 2004-05-21 02:14 pm (UTC)