[jerryt]

Originally Posted by Chock

Douglas Bader's take on things: 'War is not a game of cricket.' - by which he meant that offering the enemy a sporting chance to shoot back is alright for sport, but in war the reality is that it's better to shoot someone in the back while they aren't looking if you want to win.

Manfred Von Richtofen: 'It's the job a fighting pilot to destroy the enemy, anything else is rubbish.' - by which he meant that although he was often accused of taking on planes which were at a disadvantage, and refusing to give people a 'sporting chance', it was not his job to be sporting, it was his job to kill people and survive to be able to do it again and again. And if that meant nailing some poor RFC flyer with a few hours of flight experience flying an inferior aeroplane, that that was their tough luck. If his enemy was at a tactical advantage, then it made perfect sense to not even get into a fight in the first place.

I really need to send this to the morons in the US Congress.