General George S. Patton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUX6wV1lBQ)offers some thoughts. :rant:

I wish patton were alive today and commanding the forces in Iraq. I would also like to see him deal with the likes of Nancy Pelosi.

General George S. Patton offers some thoughts.

That video, and the political worldview it represents, is one of the most gut-wrenching, sickening fucking things I have ever watched in my life.

There are no words to express how much I loathe such men (I use the term euphemistically) , and their putrid, despicable *My Country Right Or Wrong, By Gawd* ideology.

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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -- Albert Einstein

FT, you're just one sick M-F-er, may you vomit all over your keyboard.

Patton would just get fired all over again for being an out of control war monger if he were around today.

Steady, boys.
Clearly you disagree.

Is there some middle-ground?
Can we find a way for all of us to discuss our heroes without the wrenching of the guts, the puking, and the violations of the keyboards?

I know; Freethinker, you should at this point go ahead and post a video or quotation from your personal hero.

Or not.
I don't want you to feel any pressure to perform.
Because that isn't how we roll here at allforums.com
We're all about the accomodation and the understanding, after all.

:flowers:

FT.....may you vomit all over your keyboard.

That Patton video would do it.

Like Einstein, I am sickened to think that warmongering cretins like George Patton are of the same species (allegedly) as me.

I know; Freethinker, you should at this point go ahead and post a video or quotation from your personal hero.


I did.

Here it is again;

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." --- Albert Einstein

You're a real renegade, sir.
Adopting Albert Einstein as your personal standard-bearer.

He, long recognized as a plagiarist, fraud, and sadly, bully to his first wife and silent collaborator. Poor Mileva. History hasn't been kind to her.
Sexist were the ways of the chroniclers of the times of the 1920's and 30's.

Luckily, his second wife had a firm grip on his leash, and she kept him cowed and cuckolded until her untimely death in 1936.

But really, he was a true firebrand.
His views on pacifism and peace held a lot of water with President Franklin Roosevelt, considering that Einstein had earlier signed a letter urging that the atomic bomb be built, in order that the US stay ahead of Hitler's scientists in the development of the bomb.

Oh well. Who are we to question the motivations and emotional stability of such a genius?

http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/pictures/newyork.jpg

Wow, 10 words into that was enough for me. It's pretty chilling.

Wow, just wow. I don't know how to feel about that, especially seeing as I hold quite a bit of admiration for Patton.

especially seeing as I hold quite a bit of admiration for Patton.
no kidding... poof....gone... I even remember watching that movie

no kidding... poof....gone... I even remember watching that movie

Well, my admiration for him doesn't change, he died in 1945, someone just used him to make this. But to be honest if he were alive today, I could see him saying just what he said in this video.

He will always be a hero to the besieged men at Bastogne.

He will always be a hero to the besieged men at Bastogne.

Yeah, but the men at Bastonge, namely the 101st, would say they didn't need rescuing, heh.