Well, Ham was Noah's son...
Ham is a cut of pork meat...
Ham is a radio-ham or similar...
Ham in Russian apparently means 'bad person'...
Quote:My point is simply that war is hell and applying 21st century morality to 18th century conflict will never be productive. While I do feel for the plight of Acadians they are in no way unique.
I used to read books on the brutality faced by my second cousins in thr former Volga German Republic. The deliberate starvation, senseless executions, and deportations to Siberia in the dead of winter which killed well over half of them really enraged me. I did get over it. I simply stopped reading those books.
In reality war ethics was much more codified BEFORE the French revolution than it would be later and for a reason...cliques of consanguineous monarchs could afford a bit of etiquette because all they were after was land or the interests of some third cousin two steps removed they supported as king of a foreign country...
It all changed with the revolution, the creation of garde nationale and the Brunswick manifesto...basically it all became a matter of supreme principles...I think Saint-Just said that a Republic isn't the matter of a Senate, but of Virtue itself, while monarchy is not about a crown...it's crime itself...you don't compromise over supreme principles.
Not that war wasn't brutal and violent, but many 'courtesies' were instantly dropped with WWI and especially WWII, with the Revolution as antecedent.
Quote:I did get over it. I simply stopped reading those books.
Well, god forbid the day I wouldn't know better than believing they went to Iraq to bring miniskirts, 'freedom' and porn cable TV, or such tripe...
When people stop reading you get morons wishing to nuke 'frogs' and who wish death upon the very extremists their government has fed, trained and funded until recently...but they no longer remember...their longest term memory is the fifth season of some scummy sit-com or telepicture about some prat abducted by aliens and mated with his mother...