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Originally Posted by aklim
What's so honorable about following an antiquated set of rules that is not used?
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Because it is who we are as a nation.
Because it is always who we have been, going all the way back to George Washington's command of the Continental Army in a period of dire emergency and ... yes ... facing an enemy that did not play by the same rules.
And we should also do it because it has always worked well for us in the previous conflicts we have fought.
-- Bokonon