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Entry: There Are No Neocons in Foxholes Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/viet_nam_redux#20 Post contents: Typical paranoid, bed-wetting neo-con drivel from Jimmy Rockford. Like Taki, I once beleived this crap as well. Then I grew up. And I learned a few things from men who actually fought these "necessary" wars, started by compensating cowards from who the neo-cons get their ideology. "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry for blood, more vengeance. More desolation." -- William Tecumseh Sherman "Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." -- Douglas MacArthur, 1951 "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded." -- Douglas MacArthur, 1957 "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time...I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing." -- President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953, upon being presented with plans to wage preventive war to disarm Stalin's Soviet Union Sent at: 2008 09 07