05-07-2008, 04:33 AM
Paul B wrote:-
.... :lol: :lol: :lol: ....without wishing to give offence, or venture into modern politics, the analogy I had in mind was not that the CIA ( Krypteia) killed/terrorised U.S citizens ( Homioi) but rather the poor (helots) in neighbouring Central/South America (messenia)......my apologies if that analogy is distasteful. :oops:
Quote:Leaving aside that I am unaware of the CIA slaughtering american citizens in great numbers and only fear their incompetance
.... :lol: :lol: :lol: ....without wishing to give offence, or venture into modern politics, the analogy I had in mind was not that the CIA ( Krypteia) killed/terrorised U.S citizens ( Homioi) but rather the poor (helots) in neighbouring Central/South America (messenia)......my apologies if that analogy is distasteful. :oops:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff