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The More Things Change
By Maj P
Saw on Fox News today the report on the probability of OBL hiding out in the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Speaking of this and of military history, he who has read Churchill's great book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force-- if there were blogs back then he would have been a milblogger, as he was both participant and correspondent-- will recognize that there's nothing new under the sun on the old Northwest Frontier. John Masters would agree.
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Project Gutenburg has Churchill on file. Read it here for free.
One of my favorite quotes from the Grand Old Man of Downing Street, talk about resolve:
"History will be kind to me because I intend to write it." --Winston Churchill
Carry on,
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Read it online at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/mkdff10.txt
Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a
numerous priesthood--"Mullahs," "Sahibzadas," "Akhundzadas," "Fakirs,"
--and a host of wandering Talib-ul-ilms, who correspond with the
theological students in Turkey, and live free at the expense of the
people. More than this, they enjoy a sort of "droit du seigneur," and no
man's wife or daughter is safe from them. Of some of their manners and
morals it is impossible to write. As Macaulay has said of Wycherley's
plays, "they are protected against the critics as a skunk is protected
against the hunters." They are "safe, because they are too filthy to
handle, and too noisome even to approach."
Churchill was a great chronicler, and not that much has changed.