Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Intent to Kill

Laid out in considerable detail, this post explores what happened to the deceased Gaza activists.  This is an excellent example of a basic premise: if you want captives, send police; if you want corpses, send soldiers.  Their training is different, and you get what you pay for.

I do not consider Israel a civilized nation.  (I wish it would have been, but sheesh and baksheesh, Germany  is accruing beans faster on the civilized side of the scale.)  I sincerely wish that America would stop sending money there.  It is funding atrocities.  This costs America a lot of civilized beans.
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allykat

allykat

June 6 2010, 19:06:23 UTC 11 years ago

I am an American student of German and German history, but I do speak German. It is close, but "Mutti" has two t's. And yes a mother could write that. "(Auf) Wiedersehen, Mutti" means "Until I see you again, Mommy."

That aside, at this point I really don't understand what it is we're discussing and its relevance to the OT, so I'm going to bow out of this one. However, thank you for the reminder of the subject of WWII German POWs. I've read a bit on the subject but mostly from the German POV and not from the American.
msstacy13

msstacy13

June 6 2010, 19:45:01 UTC 11 years ago

Thank you. I guessed right, but spelled wrong.
(I flunked German twice before giving up on it.)

We weren't discussing it, actually,
and it was entirely off topic.
I was being rude.

That's a passage from a novel I've been writing for, umm,
two years now, I guess. A war correspondant from Nebraska
in London 1940-5. It comes just before the blitz begins,
and I added it because I had written so much about bombs and mayhem
and life and death in London,
and I thought it would be good for a reader to first have that image
--a guy holding a photograph of his mom and bleeding to death--
fixed clearly in their mind.

So, yeah, if not off topic,
then rather oblique and tangential.