The War Nerd is worth having on your favorites. Lengthy.
http://pando.com/2015/03/17/slaughter-on-eighth-avenue-a-st-patricks-day-commemoration/
"But the real test came on July 12, 1872. There was a huge non-event that day, and every July 12 ever after, on the streets of New York. The Orange Parade was called off on account of chicken**bleep**ness.
It was, as I said, one of the few times in human history that a mob got the right people. And made its point, and made it stick. Of course they had to pay a disproportionate price, but their whole wretched lives were a disproportionate price, and part of driving home the “disproportionate” part of that equation is being willing to die, and to kill, when they shove it in your **bleep**ing face a little too blatantly and often. In a way, July 12, 1871 was almost like the comic-opera overture for the verdict pronounced by Padraig Pearse, the beautiful and horrible sentence that defined 20th century warfare: “Victory will go, not to those who can inflict the most, but to those who can endure the most.”
