Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Dying for one’s country

Not well written, but funny.

I assume most of you know what General Patton said about dying for one’s country.

4 comments:

e said...

nice point, but too repetitive.

e said...

subscribing

Anonymous said...

It was poorly written on purpose.
I think that he is right. All of those guys in Leningrad should just have let the Nazis take over. What is the difference between Germany having more or less territory?
For that matter, I dont get what all of those Israeli soldiers are fighting for. Like, why do you care about the boundaries so much? Chill out.
Like, those Spanish anarchists rebelling against the fascists - why did they care so much about the amount of food they were allowed to have and personal autonomy and stuff?
The list goes on, but the bottom line is that I totally agree with all of these enlightened young men who like being alive and don't have anything that they care about other than eating and drinking for their full seventy year allotment. They have the emes, those guys. I think that what the world needs, is to chill out more. Stop being so stressed out by those dictators. Sheesh.

Anarchist Chossid said...

In all those cases, the soldiers were not dying for the country, they were dying for their people, for themselves, for their friends and relatives.

As Voznesensky would say (when told to “get out of the country”), “I don’t live in the country, I live in Peredelkino” (his village where his teacher was buried).