Bravery versus Bravado
Glenn Greenwald takes issue with Mark Steyn’s endorsement of the attitude of David Warren et al. regarding the kidnapped Fox News journalists.
General George Smith Patton, Jr. was not known as an appeaser, but was considered by many to be both personally brave and extremely bellicose.
Messieurs Steyn and Warren should study General Patton’s well-known quote:
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
The winner isn’t the first “martyr” buried, it’s the last man standing, but people whose biggest fear is a social snub would hardly be a position to understand that.
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The chest puffers never volunteer to be martyrs, they want others to be martyrs for the chest puffers’ cause. Sorry, if they think a cause is worth dying for, then they need to be the ones on the front lines putting their lives on the line.
The chest puffers should go do anatomically impossible acts to themselves.
These guys panic when the power goes out for an hour, but they think they have the guts to start bad mouthing the guy at the other end of an AK-47. If that’s the way they feel there are plenty of planes to Israel and they can walk into the Gaza Strip. If they want to “testify” to the Palestinians, I don’t think the Israelis would care.
If they want to help out the Shrubbery, the Army always has room for another 11 Bravo.
Nonono, *we’re* the cowards. Geesh!