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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-) Date: 15 Mar 2024 16:07:10 GMT Lines: 45 Message-ID: <l5ja1eFg9boU1@mid.individual.net> References: <uso2en$184pn$1@solani.org> <17bbfffbc79db17b$324$3037545$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <usr4va$19trd$2@solani.org> <l5clnhFfl59U3@mid.individual.net> <ut0gt6$23m8u$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GQuIRZxNA6ilzFUsUH940wd615WO7+Gx4hdMG4qMDFh0Iww0vZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:a+HlKS9jQZmBK37gKRtPy/84qUQ= sha256:tyI9SQTlmC3jZrDb61KDtom8l5Vvu3FiG4OKADxi10k= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2999 On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:56:21 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote: > But the commander _knew_ something about his troops when he ordered them > to walk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4 The first step in basic training is to make sure the recruits are thoroughly cowed. When they are sufficiently malleable they are trained to follow any command no matter how ludicrous. Group cohesiveness is also stressed. Most recruits are 18 years old and susceptible. I may be many things, perhaps even a warrior, but I'm not a soldier and the phenomenon is incomprehensible to me. I've visited quite a few of the Civil war battlefields in this country. In many cases troops would advance across open fields toward dug in artillery emplacements. Why they didn't turn around and shoot the big fool is beyond me. > And about Germans and the Irish, those two people are just the ones that > are hard for an Iranian to study, because they've shared same enemy with > Iran for a long time (the Brits). So it's not clear what their inner > motives would have been if they didn't share an enemy with Iranians. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_the_United_States The two largest ethnic groups are the Germans and the Irish. A distinction has to be made about the 'Scotch-Irish'. They were Ulster Presbyterians that emigrated as early as the reign of Charles I. The term originated in the 1840's to distinguish them from the Irish Catholics emigrating during the famine. They're not counted as Irish in the demographic breakdown. The fledgling US fought a was to secede from Britain in 1776 and then had another go around in 1812. Britain half-heatedly supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Both the Germans and Irish have axes to grind with the Brits. Still fools like Wilson and Roosevelt support Britain. Studying Iranians in the US isn't easy either. I've only known one personally. He ran a small Middle Eastern restaurant in Boston. According to him he had been a successful film producer in Iran before the Revolution and didn't like the new climate.