On Mar 18, 11:38 pm, "Cosmin Corbea"
spa_mtrap.canada.com.invalid> wrote:

I probably should have put that as, "Humans do what they BELIEVE is in
their best interest at all times. No exceptions. It may not be but
they believe it so. I have one interesting story of it. During the
Korean War when the Marines were trying to break out of the "Frozen
Chosin" encirclement by the Chinese army. In one of the foxholes,
grenades kept coming in and our boys were throwing them back. They
were the "Mash Potato" kind. One came in and a man couldn't reach it,
so he stepped on it. It went off along with parts of his foot.
Another landed beside, so he kneeled down on it with his knee and it
exploded. The man telling the story said they were sure he was dead.
The man was then wounded himself and taken to an aid station and there
laid the guy, minus a foot, and half of his other leg. Amazingly, he
lived through it. But how could he have believed that was in his best
interest? From everything I could find out, he felt that it was in
his best interest to protect his buddies from the explosions even at
the almost certain cost of his life, and did so. He thought it better
he die and his buddies live. So, if he believed that, then you can
make people believe a lot of things in politics. What was the saying?
"You can fool some of the people all of time, and all the people some
of the time, but you may be able to fool all the people long enough
for your term to end." I believe that is how it goes, I may be a
little off on the ending. Regards, Ken Hogan