Things Without Defense: Insects, Kittens, Small Boys.

The Worst Thing About War Was The Sitting Around And Wondering What You Were Doing Morally.

Chickenshit Refers To Behavior That Makes Military Life Worse Than It Need Be: Petty Harassment Of The Weak By The Strong; Open Scrimmage For Power And Authority And Prestige; Sadism Thinly Disguised As Necessary Discipline; A Constant 'paying Off Of Old Scores'; And Insistence On The Letter Rather Than The Spirit Of Ordinances.

The Past Is Not The Present: Pretending It Is Corrupts Art And Thus Both Rots The Mind And Shrivels The Imagination And Conscience.

Travelers Learn Not Just Foreign Customs And Curious Cuisines And Unfamiliar Beliefs And Novel Forms Of Government. They Learn, If They Are Lucky, Humility.

Tourism Requires That You See Conventional Things, And That You See Them In A Conventional Way.