As we are dealing in part with interesting folks, Colonel Lawrence, is one who in the Kermit Roosevelt sphere is a most real and interesting character.
You will know this British chap by the name of Lawrence of Arabia.
I do not know the Hollywood version of Lawrence, but the real version was that of a man who was an archeologist. His Professor Hogarth of Oxford was busy digging up buried cities, and when the war began, Hogarth joined Naval Intelligence, and Lawrence sort of joined himself to a band of outlaws he raised for the purpose of inciting the Arabs, for the purpose of land piracy against the Ottoman Turks.
There was not a great deal of romance in any of this, as all made a pact that if they were wounded, one of their comrades would shoot them, as being captured and tortured by the Turks was worse than death, like being captured by the American Indian and being filleted.
Lawrence had a bounty of 10,000 pounds dead on his head, and 20,000 living, for a public execution.
At 30 years of age, this boyish faced leader of land pirates would sweep into the Turkish enclaves out of the desert and be off with the booty before the Turks could do a thing. Lawrence always had to make certain he gained a great deal of spoil or the Arabs would not follow him ever again as this was about financial gain against the Ottoman Turks who ruled.
Of interest in this, was the reality that Lawrence could never find an Englishman to go along to blow things up in being an expert on powders that explode. It was those camels, in being hell on the human body to ride for dozens of miles, that only Lawrence seemed capable to withstand the ride.
The reality is Lawrence of Arabia, wore robes like the Arabs, but he never did a thing to hide he was English. The Arabs knew he was English, and while Lawrence and his outlaws made certain to keep a close watch on the Arabs on raids, as that bounty was an enticement, the reality is everyone knew who this commander was, and Lawrence also deemed his days were numbered on the battlefield, but those days never caught up with him.
Lawrence of Arabia is a fitting model for what this blog advocates in the Letters of Marque, or the public sanction of piracy in the American Privateers or the Sir Francis Drake type. With the millions of Obama Super Depression having been ruined in America, it is fitting in all of these wars, that the Lawrence types should apply to the NSA for some type of Privateer license to make spoiler war on American enemies.
Granted there should be some rules like not nuking some country in genocide, but as long as the shooting is not on the slaughter scale or all the females end up pregnant by Americans, and private property sort of be protected, and it is a target of some national assets or their leaderships villas, then all should be legal.
Hell if you made sure that 10% of the loot ended up in the Democratic coffers, they would agree to ears being cut off for trophies as a fashion statement.
See you can leave faux bin Laden babies crawling around in Muslim blood if someone like Birther Obama gets to chest thump on it all. Just find a way for a politician to get up to the hog trough, and Jackie of Lodi can get off her whore's butt and be off looting Iran and free herself from prostitution.
Nothing against working girls, but on the Rollercoaster of love, you just got to dust off the camel......and who knows maybe gals will like that camel riding as it looks hard on the nuts for men.
Anyway, this has gone to a history where you never dreamed and were Kermit Roosevelt never would have taken it, being a Gentleman.
It usually degrades to that when the subject runs out and that is the signal to go on the raiding party.
nuff said
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