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To: Snowshoe who wrote (70245)8/20/2008 8:47:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
While in Beijing, I watched some changing of the guard soldiers being instructed down a side street. It was a quite unpleasant scene with the hapless foot soldiers on the receiving end of abuse. In general, the soldiers seem to be pretending to be soldiers. They had a smile lurking not far below the kung fu killer surface when given a smile when they were standing bored on duty.

Some of the guards in Tienanmen Square looked pretty vicious but they were not in uniform. They were disguised as regular people, which they obviously were not, loitering around, practising the occasional kung fu moves to keep warm.

The regular blokes might be better soldiers than Italians in WWII who would surrender as soon as it was possible, as did Iraqi soldiers in 1990 and 2003, but I doubt they'd be very convincing. Their heart isn't in it. They are going through the motions. There is more to an army than being forced into mass synchronized movement for pitiful reward and to avoid being abused.

<"North Korea is No. 1 in the world when it comes to uniformity. They are uniform beyond belief! These kind of traditional synchronized movements result in a sense of beauty. We Chinese are able to achieve this as well. Through hard training and strict discipline," he said. Pyongyang's annual mass games feature 100,000 people moving in lockstep. >

There is more to a community's success than compliant uniformity too.

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