Thursday, October 04, 2007

The last refuge

"Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the south and their countrymen are moldering in the dust."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Sound like anyone you know?
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3 comments:

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper said...

Taylor Caldwell wrote a novel about this called Captains and the Kings, in the 1970's.

Set in the Civil War era, a thinly veiled story about Joseph Kennedy who wanted to be accepted into the group of stateless men who sold arms to both sides, and whose loyalty was to money and power, not a nation. Reminds me of the secrecy of the "Vault", but these were real criminals. Cheney/Bush types for sure.

A good tale, and appropriate to our day.

12:08 PM
Bay Rat North West said...

Definately Hillary, Obama and the gang.

12:34 PM
The Old New Englander said...

What planet do you live on?

8:08 PM

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