Classic Classics Fail

[sabotabby]

Via springheel_jack:

"The glue of the military ethos is what the Greeks called philia - friendship, comradeship or brotherly love... the source of the unit cohesion that most research has shown to be critical to battlefield success. The presence of open homosexuals in the close confines of ships or military units opens the possibility that eros - which unlike philia is sexual, and therefore individual and exclusive - will be unleashed into the environment, manifest(ing) itself as sexual competition, protectiveness and favoritism, all of which undermine the nonsexual bonding essential to unit cohesion, good order, discipline and morale."

- Wall Street Journal contributing editor Mackubin Thomas Owens

There are few, if any, paragraphs that have ever failed quite so spectacularly as the one above. Marvel at the fact that the author must have never so much as been in the same room as a history book in his entire stunted and pathetic life.

Just. Wow.