{"id":137869,"date":"2026-07-25T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137869"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:08:17","slug":"erichydrick-exactly-the-lines-from-patton-and-from-the-untouchables-come-to-mind-toono-bastard-ever-won-a-war-by-dying-for-his-country-he-won-the-war-by-making-the-other-poor-dumb-bastard-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137869","title":{"rendered":"@erichydrick Exactly \n\nThe lines from Patton and from the Untouchables come to mind, too\n\n&#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;He draws a knife, you draw a gun. He puts one of yours in the hospital,"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@erichydrick Exactly <\/p>\n<p>The lines from Patton and from the Untouchables come to mind, too<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He draws a knife, you draw a gun. He puts one of yours in the hospital,<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2081033278216085647\">Jul 25, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>July 25, 2026 at 11:06AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@erichydrick Exactly The lines from Patton and from the Untouchables come to mind, too &#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221; &#8220;He draws a knife, you draw a gun. He puts one of yours in the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137869\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@erichydrick Exactly <\/p>\n<p>The lines from Patton and from the Untouchables come to mind, too<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He draws a knife, you draw a gun. He puts one of yours in the hospital,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-137869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137870,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137869\/revisions\/137870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137869"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=137869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}