Degenerate Political Pressure (was RE: The Wimps of War)
R. A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Fri Feb 14 10:04:36 PST 2003
At 10:28 AM -0500 on 2/14/03, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> How would you distinguish the actions of the Royal Navy from those of
> ordinary pirates? Just prettier uniforms, better weaponry, and a bitch
> back in London with a crown on her head, or what?
Sounds about right to me.
:-)
Seriously, just chalk it up to emergent phenomena, and you're not too far from the truth.
Cheers,
RAH
"A prince is a bandit who doesn't move." -- Mancur Olsen, 'Power and Prosperity'
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