The finest essay on the subject, ever.

Posted on March 19, 2013 by KG

300a‘..Even when all others forget their tale, the warriors remember. Even when they are called peacekeepers and turned into an army of clowns for the satisfaction of their political masters. The armies may decay, but warriors still remain in their cracks, on their edges—men who are not wanted, but are needed because they are the only ones who can do the grim work and do it well.  They may only be a hundredth of an army, or a thousandth. A fraction of a fraction. But without them there is no army, only empty uniforms…’
Daniel Greenfield,    ‘The Warrior’s Tale’

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15 Responses to The finest essay on the subject, ever.

  1. Son of Liberty says:
    March 19, 2013 at 14:32

    Absolutely excellent KG.
    Very timely as well. As “the long war” winds down and reshapes itself into inward decay and leaves the wall open to the barbarians at the gates.

    -SoL

    • KG says:
      March 19, 2013 at 15:15

      It struck me that way too, SoL.
      The tragedy is that the warriors will most likely never get the chance to face those barbarians, because they’ve been sold out by their own people who are too afraid to face the enemy.
      And those people would sooner betray their warriors, because they’re an uncomfortable reminder of what men are supposed to be.

  2. MIchael in Nelson says:
    March 19, 2013 at 16:02

    Thanks for this KG, have bookmarked the blog. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  3. Carol-Christian Soldier says:
    March 19, 2013 at 16:35

    Indeed!
    Warriors are being PC’d out-
    Look at what is going on at our Military academies- Grrrrrrrrrrr
    as always-D. Greenfield tells it like it is!
    Carol-CS

  4. Seneca III says:
    March 19, 2013 at 20:13

    BATTLE

    A wild place, a high place
    Where the wind blows strong in your face
    And your hunger for life is a fierce pain in your belly

    A wild place, a high place
    Where a knife is equality and a gun is god
    And your hunger for life is a fierce pain in your belly

    A wild place, a high place
    Where a man is a man, never more than a man and often less
    And your hunger for life is a fierce pain in your belly

  5. William Stout says:
    March 19, 2013 at 21:39

    Thank you for posting this my friend. It was a clarion call long overdue to the West. So long have we been in free fall that the hope for a brighter future has dimmed, but it has not been doused. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain once called such men giants. He said that if we were to go, but a single generation without them we would be both damned and doomed. It is good to see the truth of his words brought to the fore once again. Good men will recognize the value of the sentiment, but wise men will act.

  6. KG says:
    March 19, 2013 at 21:58

    The charge of the 20th Maine Infantry:
    http://thomaslegion.net/coloneljoshuachamberlain.html
    And what stories are boys raised on nowadays? Bwuce and Robert go Interior Decorating? Gender Sensitivity stories? Tales of colonial oppression?
    Poor bastards, I pity them.

  7. Flashman says:
    March 20, 2013 at 04:03

    Hmmmm.

    Nevertheless if it comes to End of Days, my bet is that Americans are the world’s best placed to somehow get through it because when one gets down to raw survival, the prize goes to those with weapons, technology and access to food supplies.

    Americans (a certain and significant proportion of them anyway) meet these requirements.

    Africa for example, and by contrast, has weapons but nothing else.

    Whereas Europe has technology but no food – and has abjectly disarmed its populace.

    • Seneca III says:
      March 20, 2013 at 06:13

      Precisely, Flashman :mrgreen:

      Mind you: “

        • Seneca III says:
          March 20, 2013 at 19:13

          Ooops! For some reason you only got part of the comment. See hereunder:

          :“…and has abjectly disarmed its populace.” is true in the sense of firearms but there are other types of weaponry that can be extremely effective if deployed correctly by trained users in an an urban environment.

          Think ‘field expedients’ although I cannot be any more specific here, but when faced with an inevitability the Western mind can be quite inovative.

          Do you remember the the old cliche – ‘There is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, there are only dangerous men’? http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

          Rgds, SIII

  8. KG says:
    March 20, 2013 at 19:21

    “Do you remember the the old cliche – ‘There is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, there are only dangerous men’?”
    Oh yes! :mrgreen: