Monday, January 17, 2005

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD THE US WARRED AGAINST ALEXANDER THE GREAT?

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD THE US WARRED AGAINST ALEXANDER THE GREAT?

Okay, so the Pentagon was sitting there, in 1994, early in the Clinton Administration, in the midst of don't ask, don't tell, and some heir to Curtis LeMay steps up and says, "Why don't we turn the enemy all queer?"

I don't know if I'm more impressed that someone knocked the idea down immediately or that someone thought it would work in the first place. If you could ask the Persians who fought against Alexander the Great, I think they'd have said it wouldn't have made much difference.

I'd rather we spend our time developing the joke that can kill. It worked for the British against the Germans... at least according to Monty Python.

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