Every once in a while, Twitter shows me something.
Someone managed to add a GIF showing that wonderful 32 seconds from "The Wire" where Slim Charles explains to Avon Barksdale, the king, the essential truth about war, for any nation, whether it's a subculture in Baltimore or for the United States of America.
It's a truth which explains every American war, with the exception of WWII, going back to the Spanish American War of the 1890's.
Of course, it has much wider application in today's Trumpery era.
And here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQCuRdWt-A
Someone managed to add a GIF showing that wonderful 32 seconds from "The Wire" where Slim Charles explains to Avon Barksdale, the king, the essential truth about war, for any nation, whether it's a subculture in Baltimore or for the United States of America.
It's a truth which explains every American war, with the exception of WWII, going back to the Spanish American War of the 1890's.
Of course, it has much wider application in today's Trumpery era.
And here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQCuRdWt-A
Mad Dog,
ReplyDeleteHow tragically true about war-"once you in it, you in it"...despite the reasons, or lack thereof...
Maud
Ms. Maud,
ReplyDeleteJust another moment of clarity from "The Wire."
Mad Dog