Milsurp After Hours

"Gaelic football".......... so is that soccer or rugby or what???

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Gaelic Football is just what it says Vern.............
Here are the rules explained for you............ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOe-USZzok
A bit like Aussi Rules Football...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnv32s8jPz0

Both better games than Gridiron but neither as good as Rugby Union.............just thought I would chuck that in to get the pot bubbling

What I want to know is with all those priests, where is the famous Father Duffy? The priest Pat O'Brien played in the movie. No mention of him. Maybe he was on leave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_P._Duffy

Headline from a hundred years ago reminds us that "terrorists" aren't really a new phenomenon......only the term.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

The Kaiser says it isn't his fault. He didn't start it. .... Don't blame him. Blame those other guys... or one of those other guys. He's not saying who he thinks is the prime cause.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Boy but did he make a mistake................

Nobody asked him or ... the other guys... if they wouldn't try to promote a peace conference. No way... they still had lots of men and lots of bullets. This thing could be won they thought. If we win we can sort things out to suit us and proclaim a victory! We can get reparations and make the other side pay for it. It's costing too much money. Besides... there aren't any medals for losing. No pride in that. After all... we are only killing young men as they kill your young men who likewise are only "doing their duty". That's the way we have always done it. Their mothers will be proud of them. We'll have yearly ceremonies for decades and decades to honor them. People yet unborn will get a thrill out of honoring them. Alls good. No need to stop this thing.

And... it's not much different now.

You might find this interesting................

http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.ne ... nitiatives

Interesting, Duncan. Lots of attempts...but each one rejected. The rejection was built into the proposal to start with in the ones I read..... "We'll talk peace but we have to have control of the Eastern countries...We'll talk peace but we have to have Alyse Lorain. We would talk peace but you are making a different proposal to the French so we won't negotiate"...etc.

In the US Wilson wanted to be the peace broker ...but at the same time he was fine with US companies going full production for ammunition and armament for the allies..nearly exclusively for the allies although pretending neutrality. Hardly a an even handed peace broker. It's like today when we arm Saudi Arabia and want to broker a peace with the country Saudi Arabia is bombing the crap out of and killing "terrorists" ...along with children and hospital patients.

Even Henry Ford had a peace expedition mostly financed by himself. It got to Europe and was laughed at and sent home.

War was a European sport. It had been that way for centuries. They would fight over anything. Even a minor thing like a trivial archduke being killed by a maniac with no discernable link to any countries provocation. Nobody saw anything unnatural about it. War was what armies did. It was like a farmer owning a barn full of fighting cocks. They were raised to fight and all the farmers around had barns full of fighting cocks as well. They wanted the fight to begin and were glad for the excuse. Only the large numbers of dead and wounded must have shocked even the leaders after a while. No blood bath had ever been so large... and increasingly more conditional the end had to be to justify it.