Frank F. Matthews

poldy wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>That sure is a part of it. Italians are lovers, not fighters, and they
>>>have little passion for war or peacekeeping or whatever you want to
>>>call it.
>>
>>Perhaps the mistake was to leave it to the military. Privatization
>>would have done the job. There are some folks in the south who could
>>keep Afghanistan quiet for a fee.
>
>
> You mean like the unemployed?
>
> So military service isn't a career option for them?
>
> Heard the Italian army ate well at least.

I was thinking of subcontracting it out to one of the local families.
Of course it might not work out too well having them that close to that
many poppies.