“Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys”
Written by Jack O'Reilly on January 25th, 2005When Mark invited me to join the blog, I knew that my first post had to be a tour de force if we had any hope of making it in the blogosphere. I pondered and I prayed. And then this comedic manna fell from heaven:
“The ability of fear to debilitate soldiers under chemical conditions
cannot be overestimated. In 1985, a battalion of the French Foreign
Legion was undergoing a mock chemical attack at its base in Corsica.
This unit had been through this exercise many times before. Usually, a
single aircraft would pass low over the troops and drop water vapor,
simulating a gas attack. This time, however, the instructors replaced
the water vapor with a harmless red powder that the troops had never
seen. Once the aircraft released the powder, the seasoned troops of
the Legion were shaken to the core. The whole battalion, apparently
believing that some horrible mistake had been made and that real
chemical compounds had been used, simply came apart. Scores of
soldiers writhed on the ground manifesting all the symptoms of a
genuine chemical attack. Some almost died from their psychologically
generated symptoms. The rest either panicked and ran or froze on the
spot expecting to die.”
Should Jonah Goldberg ever be hired by the Oxford English Dictionary to trace the etymology of The Simpsons inspired “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” I hope he uses this as an example. If you think this is just too funny to be true, I suggest you check out page 39 in No More Heroes: Madness & Psychiatry in War by Richard A. Gabriel. Adieu.
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