The Real War. A multi-cultural response
I think this Mark Steyn article relates to several recent threads-
“The American way of war is to win the war in nothing flat, and then spend the next decade losing the peace.”
and
Mark Steyn on Sir Charles Napier’s role in India’s cultural transformation:
Dealing with suttee — a tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands, General Napier’s response was impeccably multicultural:
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. .”
“The American way of war is to win the war in nothing flat, and then spend the next decade losing the peace.”
and
Mark Steyn on Sir Charles Napier’s role in India’s cultural transformation:
Dealing with suttee — a tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands, General Napier’s response was impeccably multicultural:
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. .”
