Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_00F2_01BDB293.A125FD40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lest we became too sentimental in the case of the general, the photo = does show the true fact: He killed a prisoner in cold blood. General = Loan may have been a nice man, patriotic and distraught at the loss of = several comrades but, in the words of the reverend Falwell, "two wrongs = don=92t make a right" (this statement may be the only one for which = Falwell deserves credit).=20 As I recall we were not as magnanimous in our appraisal of the warlords = of Somalia when we were confronted by the photo of dead US soldiers = dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. - ------=_NextPart_000_00F2_01BDB293.A125FD40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2><FONT size=3D5> <P><FONT size=3D3>Lest we became too sentimental in the case of the = general, the=20 photo does show the true fact: He killed a prisoner in cold blood. = General Loan=20 may have been a nice man, patriotic and distraught at the loss of = several=20 comrades but, in the words of the reverend Falwell, "two wrongs = don’t=20 make a right" (this statement may be the only one for which Falwell = deserves credit). </FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3D3>As I recall we were not as magnanimous in our = appraisal of the=20 warlords of Somalia when we were confronted by the photo of dead US = soldiers=20 dragged through the streets of=20 Mogadishu.</FONT></P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_00F2_01BDB293.A125FD40--