"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster
Mark Twain that the French are great in a massacre. Give them a decided advantage and they'll fight like Apaches, kiling everyone in sight, he said. Toe to toe with a foe who can really hit back ... not so much. Air strikes against a half-ass Libyan Army isn't exactly the defense of Verdun. Where the hell is the Foreign Legion when you need them?
Mark Twain that the French are great in a massacre. Give them a decided advantage and they'll fight like Apaches, kiling everyone in sight, he said. Toe to toe with a foe who can really hit back ... not so much. Air strikes against a half-ass Libyan Army isn't exactly the defense of Verdun.
ReplyDeleteWhere the hell is the Foreign Legion when you need them?