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Sunday, 27 November 2005

Just what is a war, anyway?

Steel doesn't often up and write whole essays himself, but he just wrote two good ones.  I would be proud to have written either one.

Here's part of one of them.

WAR is when everybody is rooting for you to win.

A war is something that happens and everybody wishes it would just go away.

WAR is fought to survive.

A war is waged for some reason nobody is quite sure of.

...WAR unites. A war divides.

WAR results in a win or you lose.

A war has no winners and we all lose.

...WAR is seldom fought, lasts long and is never forgotten.

A war is 'conducted', budgeted', 'discussed' and 'recriminated'.

WAR is what anyone would do.

A war is something no one should try.

Pogo was right. 

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

(Now go read the other one.)

Posted by Obi-Wan on Sunday, 27 November 2005 at 02:53 PM in 9-11, Idiotarians, Iraq, War on terrorists |

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Thank you Obi. The Liberal Manifesto took 25 minutes start to flog. The WAR/war took about 10 minutes longer. I wrote them back to back. Straight through. I think something bit me.

Posted by: Steel | Sunday, 27 November 2005 at 11:57 PM

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