Warring to Win
...suit of battle, move from potential victim to potential victim, until the Kuhlengel finds that one person who is not on alert to the fact that even an innocuous greeting can be used to carefully cover the mortar attack being launched. Once the battle to divide the opponent into slices of carne ribbon has commenced, there is not a single chance of civilized discussion, withdrawl, sympathetic reprieve, nor agreeing that the battle is a tie. Further, arguments can be momentarily dropped, as the two parties pull back to refuel and go forward march; sometimes these types of battles become wars that continue for years. Only at the occasion of death; a funeral have I seen the opponents momentarily truce--that is to agree to abandon overt assault. Being the Hun warriors that they are, this naturally results in the parties not speaking to each other. It is a more subtle form of the Kuhlengel battle missions and exercises, only because if the parties are not engaged in a machine gun set at rapid fire type of exchange, they most likely just do not have anything to say. And, if too many of the members of the family are engaged in the art of war at the same time, the after the funeral eating exercise becomes just that--an exercise. The food is efficiently set out, one plate per person, efficiently picked back up, put away, and the family members disperse to their own personal quarters. Chh -ching, to the curb; this funeral dinner is now over. Guests are left unprepared. They came to comfort the distraught and grieving family members. But, alas! No comfort is needed, expected, nor sought. For every occasions and affair of life can and will be settled according to one method, and that is the method of fighting. With the occasions of death, the fight will pick back up at the next family gathering. Family members related by marriage are easily recognized. They are the quiet people standing off to one side, and they are in a huddle. This is no...