When a man puts on his country's uniform he accepts the distinct possibility of being killed in action. When we whimper that we cannot imagine sending our infantry troops into the Balkans because some of them may be killed we are in effect saying that we need no army. Personally I am more concerned about air operations, because when aircraft are shot down over enemy territory savages on the other side may use the deliberate torment of our fliers as a means of exerting pressure upon us. If we send infantry into the attack we may get some people killed, but we will not have to watch them on television being hung up by their thumbs. People die in war.
People also die on the highways and in the hospitals.
In a previous issue we forgot to mention that we discovered the television service in Guatemala to be superior to what we can pick up here in the wilds of Arizona. In our hotel we were treated alternately to the Discovery Channel and the current bullfights. The corrida de toros is in no sense a sport, being rather a demonstration of the triumph of human grace and courage over brute strength. We hear from our overseas agents that law enforcement and the whole judicial system in Kenya has now broken down to the extent that the people are now largely executing summary justice on the spot. There is a good deal to recommend this, but it does have certain disadvantages, principally in what may be called over-control.