From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:
> JT> I keep telling people occasional war is a good thing. Half the
> JT> medical advancements come from war injuries that would have
> JT> taken a whole lot longer if it weren't for that. It only costs
> JT> the lives of those who probably wouldn't be largely productive
> JT> members of the community. 

>  I agree. There are thousands of people who like that sort of thing,
> and if you don't send them off to war, they end up turning Muslim and
> buy automatic weapons to shoot each other anyway.

  I knew a few people like that, they don't even bother turning muslim 
first.  They're the type of people who go crazy on a shooting rampage 
and everyone wonders *why* they did it, it wasn't in their character.

  The hell it wasn't.

> The problem is that
> war is too expensive. What we really need, is a war where we make the
> soldiers buy their own guns, or better still, invade acountry like
> American, that already has a lot of guns. 

  Or just send them there without firearms and tell them it's more of a 
challenge.

> JT> They look at me like I just said I like eating babies on toast.
> JT> Idiots. They're much better as a stew.

>  Do they taste a bit like chicken?

  Dunno, but the older females do when they get older.  But that's a 
different story anyway.

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