Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 01:56:00 +0200
From: Jorn Andersen <ccc6639-AT-vip.cybercity.dk>
Subject: Re: Re-Suicide bombs & Middle Eastern mentality


Wasn't it Henry Ford who once said something like:
"Why is it that every time I need a pair of hands I get a human being?"

Jorn

At 16:19 07-07-96 +0100,  Hugh Rodwell wrote:

>In the 1930s, Bert Brecht wrote a poem on this problem of mercenary
armies:
>
>
>        General, your tank is a mighty machine.
>        It can bring down a forest and crush a hundred people.
>        But it has one failing:
>        It needs a driver.
>
>        General, your bomber is powerful.
>        It flies swifter than a storm and carries more than an elephant.
>        But it has one failing:
>        It needs a fitter.
>
>        General, people are very serviceable.
>        They can fly and they can kill.
>        But they have one failing:
>        They can think.

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Jorn Andersen

Internationale Socialister
Denmark



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