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Old 03-21-2012, 17:58   #12
Peregrino
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Go to work and miss all the fun. Kinda disappointing, I was going to "wax eloquent" and use a bunch of words they don't let me use in my day job. What amazes me is that the caliber of the Dutch exchange officer working at USASOC is 180 degrees opposed to this gadfly. He's a genuinely nice guy - professional, courteous, and respected. The times I've interacted with him arranging SUEs have been painless and productive (say thank you 10th SFG(A)).
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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