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To: rangergrunt
During WW II. a Gurkha patrol went out in the vicinity of Cassino to locate German positions.
after slippin by two enemy sentries in the dark of the night,they found the other four germans
of the post asleep in a row in a barn.they beheaded the two men on the inside,but left the two on the outside
to sleep-to wake up,to try to rouse their comrades......
It was a brilliant improvisation,which went straight to the unlovely heart of psychological warfare.

From Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters, A Brigadier in Ord Wingates famed Chindits.
From: tet68
6 06/09/1999 19:18:20 PDT

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Are we supposed to admire this? If so then we should *REALLY* admire Boss Clinton's ability to kill innocent children from the golf course.
It sounds to me like some slave peasants that the Jamie Shea's enjoy keeping around to do their bidding. Trained murderers.
Thank you, Your Grace, for your reminder of what is going on here.

"When a peace-loving nation is attacked by a bellicose enemy, it must offer resistance and do everything to ward off the onslaught. Heroic deeds performed in such a war by those fighting for their freedom and their lives are entirely praiseworthy, and one rightly extols the manliness and courage of such fighters. Here daring, intrepidity, and contempt for death are praiseworthy because they are in the service of a good end.
More like a mix among platapus, panda, tiger's dick, koala -- and dolphin.
From: BRAllen (BRAllen@compuserve.com)
16 06/09/1999 19:43:33 PDT To: Jai
An excerpt from the following:

"The idea of a Gurkha U.N. rapid reaction force is not new: It comes up every time Western powers find themselves caught in a military morass they can't avoid and won't win. British Prime Minister John Major put the idea before the U.N. in 1991, but it was deemed too expensive. . . ."

Onwards, Gurkha Soldiers!
From singh@ugcs.caltech.edu
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
January 1, 1997
I came across this piece on the UN in the 12/30 issue of the news-magazine "US News & World Report." Perhaps they should use the blue-pencil more at "US News." The publication's "rank" might just go up.
When it comes to preventing mass slaughter of civilians, the United Nations guard often seems less Rottweiler than Chihuahua. The world body does a fair job of policing quiet borders in places like Cyprus or trucking in food and supplies to starving refugees. But it has proved itself woefully incompetent at stopping wars and genocide in places like Rwanda and Bosnia. The reason is obvious: The U.N. relies on member states to supply its soldiers, and no country wishes to place ts best troops in harm's way merely to defend the refugees of a foreign land. So the U.N. tends to send into war zones professional but cautious European and often ill-trained Third World troops without the equipment and rules of engagement needed to impose order. Interventions are often much too little, much too late and much too poorly executed.
The commonly heard solution to this dilemma is to give the U.N. a permanent, professional rapid reaction force. But that solution runs up against another dilemma: How can member states equitably share the burden of policing the world? Major powers like the United States certainly would be reluctant to contribute any troops to such an effort. Just think of the public outrage at the Somalia fiasco, when the naked corpse of a U.S. Ranger was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. On the other hand, while developing nations like Bangladesh and Fiji are often eager to provide soldiers for the sake of the generous remittances these raw troops are generally little more than cannon fodder.
Naysayers contend that a rapid reaction force would get involved in too many conflicts it couldn't handle and then draw the United States in to bail it out. But any such unit would be deployed only on the orders of the U.N. Security Council (on which the United States has a permanent veto). Critics also insist that the U.N. bureaucracy is not competent to manage any military operations at all. Perhaps, but U.N. impotence is an argument for all reform than retreat. Like it or not, a force of peacemakers is coming: The world community won't accept gut-wrenching television footage of slaughtered innocents, but no government wants to send its own soldiers to end the carnage. The animal will be bred. Should it be a lap dog or a doberman?

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