American Foreign Legion
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An American Foreign Legion

Yup, folks. They're at it again! It's an at-it-etude.

You can tell, before the U.S. invaded Iraq, the French of the so-called "old" Europe (funny that, they're the ones with the successful space program) had that look, like the phrase said in that old Bob Dylan song "Motor Psycho Nightmare", when Rita asks Bob "Would you like to take that shower now?" He responded, "Oh no, no. I've been though this movie before."

Well, here we go again, with opposing warring leaders coming out of the woodwork. It's the old movie, "Tales of the Foreign Legion". All they needed was a new sucker.

This time there is no Gunga Din sounding the bugle for you. And Lawrence of Arabia's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is sitting dusty on the shelf next to four or five John Le Carre books and the Lost warnings of what's-his-name? Oh yes, Ean Flemming.

There'll always be a Sauder. Those were the only guys who defeated the Huns. In fact, Iraq, or more accurately, Mesopotamia, was where the Huns settled down after they got dead-ended. They couldn't beatem so they joined them.

The desert has always been a dangerous place. Those who learned to live there are perhaps the most dangerous people in the world but also paradoxically, the most gracious and intelligent. Even though to a limited viewpoint it might not seem so at first. Out there in the wastelands, one had to struggle bitterly for every drop of water. But they did it, and held on to territory no one else wanted until the day their descendents inherited the wealth of the most oil-rich land in the world, to where they can afford desalinization units to get fresh water directly from the sea.

So long ago the ship of the desert was the camel and the wealth drifted by in caravans. They struggled and struggled for life itself in some of the most forbidding territory on the face of the Earth. And now they're sitting on top of the one solution the West has to replace slavery as the sole means of empire-building: Cheap power; oil for internal combustion engines, everything from a lawn mower to an ore truck.

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