tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post3815931675074788096..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: an empire if you can buy itJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-64308942196499500362014-09-29T06:51:34.057-07:002014-09-29T06:51:34.057-07:00I think I know now why I haven't read his book...I think I know now why I haven't read his book yet. A bit too flowery. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-37048850751443366702014-09-29T06:50:12.362-07:002014-09-29T06:50:12.362-07:00Ordered it long ago but haven't gotten to it y...Ordered it long ago but haven't gotten to it yet ( it is on loan to a minion ). One of these days.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-67007878089630514952014-09-28T23:43:55.521-07:002014-09-28T23:43:55.521-07:00"Ah, but even when the Brits had been barely ..."Ah, but even when the Brits had been barely doing more than dipping their big toe into the waters of the Oil Age, they knew how vital the stuff was."<br /><br />"...but when we won, it was charged against me that the British petrol royalties in Mesopotamia were become dubious, and that the French Colonial policy ruined int he Levant.<br /><br />I am afraid that I hope so. We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives. I went up the Tigris with one hundred Devon Territorials, young, clean, delightful fellows, full of the power of happiness and of making woman and children glad. By them one saw vividly how great it was to be their kin, and English. And we were casting them by thousands into the fire to the worst of deaths, not to win the war but that the corn and rice and oil of Mesoppotamia might be ours."<br /><br />Introductory Chapter.<br />"Seven Pillars of Wisdom"<br />T.E. LawrenceKlausnoreply@blogger.com