Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military

Soldiers, When Committed To A Task, Can't Compromise. It's Unrelenting Devotion To The Standards Of Duty And Courage, Absolute Loyalty To Others, Not Letting The Task Go Until It's Been Done.

I Think To Be Shot In A Mountain Valley Somewhere Or Other Is Altogether Less Glorious Than Crashing An Airliner Into A Skyscraper.

Of Whatever Class Or Nation, However, All Successful Participants In The Repetitive And Unrelenting Stress Of Aerial Fighting Came Eventually To Display Its Characteristic Physiognomy: Skeletal Hands, Sharpened Noses, Tight-drawn Cheek Bones, The Bared Teeth Of A Rictus Smile And The Fixed, Narrowed Gaze Of Men In A State Of Controlled Fear.

The Islam Of The 18th, 19th And First Half Of The 20th Century Was A Poor Thing. Nobody Bothered About It. Islam Was That Funny Sort Of Pure System Of Beliefs That Depressed People In The Middle East Held As Their Religion.

Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military Virtues.