Chapter 14
But some of you are hard cases,
2 And you won't lift a finger to make your lives
easier,
3 Because you are soldiers,
4 And you don't care about hardship,
5 At all.
6 But there are always hard cases,
7 And there are always volunteers for the most
hazardous assignments,
8 And there are always fools who can't seem to
learn that the best life is a long life,
9 Surrounded by plenty of things,
10 Purchased with the absolute minimum of work
and sacrifice,
11 And for you there is no
help in the Way of Harry,
12 Because you will be blamed no matter what you
do.
13 If you fight and lose, you will get blamed for
losing.
14 If you fight and win, you will get blamed for
committing genocide against the helpless Others.
15 If you fight bravely and win decorations for
valor, you will be dismissed as a jingoistic fool who probably can't be
trusted to walk the streets...
17 And the absolute best you can hope for is that
there will come a time when they really really need you,
18 Say, to get even with somebody they've targeted
for blame,
19 In which case they will wave their flags,
20 And send you cookies,
21 And call you a hero,
22 And cry when you die,
23 As long as nobody asks them to go with you,
or make any kind of personal sacrifice,
24 Because dying in wars is a job for stupid jingoistic
fools,
25 Like you.
26 Do you understand? |
