the pen and the sword

Wow. Seems the US army is trying to counter insurgency by running an essay competition.

John Hodgman and Jon Stewart had a lot of fun with it on the Daily Show. John Hodgman points out that:

You can't fight a war on terror if you're ending a sentence with a preposition

He also offered this nice bit of rhetorical advice:

First you tell them how you're going to kill them; then you kill them; then you tell them how you just killed them.

If you feel like entering the essay competition, here's the info:

And here's a lnk to The Daily Show piece on it on youtube:

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