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But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. . . .
The moral, blunt as a rifle butt, of Kipling's ballad, is that in peacetime democracies keep their little armies on starvation rations and hard words, and when war comes, wish they hadn't. After every war the U. S. has fought, it has disassembled its fighting machine, on the theory that there would be no more wars. Result is that most U. S. wars have been fought wastefully (with unnecessary loss of life) and "heroically" (inefficiently) by...
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