A foreign war would be fatal to it because the army would have to reckon not only with the enemy in front but with a hundred million famished, infuriated peasants in the rear.
That basically sums up the war in Iraq. Pay attention, Hollywierd!
Thanks for the link! I'm familiar with some of Malcolm Muggeridge's work, and he is a good writer. I'm surprised to hear he was once a socialist.
32 posted on 05/15/2003 4:55:26 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
(America...love it or leave it. Canada is due north-Mexico is directly south...start walking.)
A link to over a hundred full text articles by Gareth Jones and Malcom Muggeridge--two of the few who saw right off how evil communism was. A tragedy Jones died in 1933 at the age of 30. We could have used another Muggeridge.