"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, September 08, 2006
"... but the core problem IMHO [in my omniscient opinion] is that OIF [WWII] was undertaken by a single nation with a few [eight] allies tagging along and the 'natives' [fascists and imperialists] would never accept whatever was imposed [were thrashed so soundly that they are now some of our best -- and still few -- allies]. [ Thanks for that Ash. I'm truly not fit to wash your feet. Your historical perspective is so compelling... -ed. ] "