Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Oh no, Carl, I was referring to the current guerilla war in France...I'm sure there must be one, you keep telling me how a certain percentage of people in every country just love to fight...LOL"
Let me assure you that there are plenty of guys in France right now that like to fight. France is famous for brawling, if you hang out in the right places. And if France were invaded again, sure, those guys who like to fight would quit beating the hell out of each other, and begin taking pot shots at the invaders.
The same applies to Iraq, or to the United States.
Being a woman, there are things about men, even "nice" men that you probably don't want to know, and I probably shouldn't tell you about. But yes, there are lots of guys who love to fight. In bars I've hung out in, the fighters are able to pick each other out of a crowd with all the alacrity of horny gay men. So most of the bar fights I've witnessed were between guys (sometimes close friends) who were quite happy to be fighting. The movie "Fight Club" is only partly fantasy.
With a population where a few percent just love to fight, turning natural born brawlers into guerilla fighters is automatic with an invasion. The exceptions occur when the fighting in the invasion kill enough of the hot headed types that the remainder are cowed (as in Germany 1945).
It was hundreds of years ago that France invented the dull butter knife, as an alternative to sharp knives at the dinner table, because of brawling. The race is still nasty as hell.
-- Carl
P.S. Re the Iraqi news: It sure looks like Saddam has performed a hell of a job on Bush. Sorry, no war. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
