War has had its apologians, ever since history began,
From the times of the Greeks and Trojans, when they sang of arms and the man,
But if you ask me to name the best, sir, I’ll tell you the one I mean,
Head and shoulders above the rest, sir, was the War of ’14-’18,
Head and shoulders above the rest, sir, stands the War of ’14-’18.

There were the wars against all those Louis’s, there were Caesar’s wars in Gaul,
The was Britain’s war in Suez, that wasn’t a war at all,
There was the war of the Spanish Succession, many other wars in between,
But they none of them made an impression like the war of ’14-’18,
They didn’t make the same impression as the war of ’14-’18.

The War of American Independence: that was enjoyable, by and large!—Watching England’s free descendants busy defeating German Ge’arge,
But the Boer War was a poor war, And I’m still inclined to lean,
Though sir, it possibly isn’t your war towards the war of ’14-’18,
Though it probably isn’t your war, sir, the war of ’14-’18.

There are certainly plenty of wars to choose from, you pick whichever one you please,
Like the one we’ve had all the news from liberating the Vietnamese,
Or those wars for God and Country, be it Korean or Philippine,
Sir, if you’ll pardon my effrontery, give me the war of ’14-’18,
If you’ll pardon my effrontery, sir, the war of ’14-’18,

Every war has it’s own attraction from total war to border raid,
Call it rebellion, police action, war of containment or crusade,
I don’t underrate the late war we see so often on the screen,
But that wasn’t a really great war like the war of ’14-’18,
No, the late war wasn’t the Great War like the war of ’14-’18.

No doubt Mars, among his chattels, has got some really splendid war,
Full of bigger and bloodier battles that we’ve ever enjoyed before,
But until the time occurs, sir, when that greater war comes on the scene,
The one that I on the whole prefer, sir, is the war ’14-’18,
Yes, the one that I still prefer, sir, is the war of ’14-’18.

“World War I forever! It has always been WW I. It will always be WW I.”

Then the “I” will be pretty redundant, and we should just call it The World War.

And of course it’s not just the “Islamofascists”, it’s The Fascists, which will be an amalgamation of, well, just about everything that’s not Republican.

see wikipedia Red Brigades

Kidnapping of Brigadier General Dozier

On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James Lee Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces. The men kidnapped General Dozier and left his wife bound and chained in their apartment. [2] He was held for 42 days until January 28, 1982, when an Italian anti-terrorist team rescued him from an apartment in Padua. Dozier was the first American general to be kidnapped by terrorists and the first foreigner kidnapped by the Red Brigades.

I’m from out West, and we’ve numbered our Interstate exits by mileage for as long as I can remember. I’d never seen the purely sequential system—which is truly irrational—until I moved to PA in 1999. So don’t tar us all with your elitist Eastern ways!

I propose calling everything east of the Alleghenies the Old United States.

(I’m actually a bit surprised that Max Boot, of all people, has forgotten this.)

Trying to open a door for the scientists to join the fun here b/c for the life of me I couldn’t figure out a Worlds of Warcraft joke.

(before posting: typo uncorrected.)

One of the reasons for doing this is that it makes it easy to add new exits without having to renumber the ones around it.

This scheme has obvious attractions for revisionist historians, who can thus insert wars where they like without messing up the numbering. Think the Spanish American War should be considered world-class? Presto! World War 1898!