"O happy gothic, barbarian and fanatical Spaniards! Happy with our monks and with our Inquisition, which, according to the ideas of the French Enlightenment, has kept us a century behind other nations. Oh, if we could only go back two centuries more!"
a spanish general addressing his troops during the peninsular war against napoleon.it was in the new yorker a month ago in a review of a book about total war.such sentiments would fit in very nicely in sadr city.or crawford texas for that matter.
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