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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
This is what Kurtz did and the insurgency dried up in his sector. But your sort decided he had to go....

I'm sure you can find some neo-cons to tell you Allawi is a poet-warrior in the classic sense.

"Could we, uh, talk to Colonel Kurtz?"
"Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you -- I mean I'm no, I can't -- I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas -- I mean --"
"Stay with the boat."
"Hey, uh, don't go -- don't go without me, OK? I want to get a picture."

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