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[rich]

wonder if this applies to Mexico today
a war that has spread to the point of meaningless, who's in charge, no
one knows, whos the chief: the cartel heads, the army, the federales,
the gov't, mercernaries, the americans, gun sellers, drug abusers, the
factory owners?
"the first 21st century war"
there is no Lord to invoke

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/drug-wars-in-mexico-201010

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        The marvelous part of this infernal enterprise is that
>        every murderer's chief has his flags blessed, and
>        solemnly invokes the Lord before he goes out to
>        exterminate his neighbors .... Moral philosophers, burn
>        all your books. As long as thousands of our brothers
>        are honestly butchered at the caprice of some men, the
>        part of mankind consecrated to heroism will be the
>        most horrible thing in all nature.
>
>
>        VOLTAIRE, PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, "WAR"