Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
And my point is, critics of the war say democracy cannot be brought to Iraq because they have no history of such. However, there also was no history of democracy in Japan and precious little in Germany. But we managed to establish both because of military action.
But you are correct - there is no comparison between WWII and Iraq. We lost far, far more soldiers in a single battle than we lost in all of the Iraq war.
Is that the only couplet left off? Where does it belong in the poem?
I copied the poem because I liked it so much and I would like to have it all, and in the correct order---
I love threads like this on a slow news night because it really makes one think and can garner a good conversation, I hope!!
And you are correct about that couplet.
I need to go back to the GMU site and determine if it was a cut and paste error on my part or a deletion on theirs.
As to my reason for posting this article it was not about imperialism. It was about How it must feel to be a troop over there idealisticaly believing you are doing the right thing and getting blown away as a reward.
As to your comments re: spreading democracy, that ain't why we are there but I would rather not get into that on this thread.