A TOUGH TAKE ON SOME BAD BREAKS

SHOCKER: TROJAN HORSE USED TO DEFEAT TROY

Geneva Convention flouted by sneaky Athenians. World is shocked. Demonstrations break out in Babylonia, Persia, and Italy. Athenians take Troy.

Another way of saying that all's fair in love and war and has been since the beginning of time.

When I served, the main trick was these old "mama sans" who shuffled along the roads with infants in their arms and granades tucked under their arm pits and squeezed between the baby and their own bodies. They would approach us and when they got close enough they'd blow kid, mama san, and Americans into to red confetti. The first time I saw my sergeant shoot an old lady with a baby I screamed; I actually came close to shooting him. Then he took us to the body and showed us what would have happened. I learned.

Been there done that. Those marines who were "fooled" by the surrender got careless and didn't follow procedure. They paid. The other soldiers seemed to have flunked map reading 101 and made wrong turns. They paid too. The marines who got sucked into the fake surrender didn't follow procedure. They thought somehow war is "fair". That's because they are Americans. They had this sense of "fairness", like there is always a referee in our lives who will blow the whistle and call a 15 yard penalty whenever somebody does something "wrong"; a scumbag lawyer we can summon who will get us out of trouble. .

I think some of these younger people, in spite of their training, think they're bullet proof. That people ain't mean. Everybody is mean when their lives are at stake. Hope everybody has learned.