morganphillipsland » current events http://www.morganphillips.com The Exciting Home Page of Morgan Phillips Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 TREASURE! http://www.morganphillips.com/archives/39 http://www.morganphillips.com/archives/39#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:35:49 +0000 admin http://morganphillips.wordpress.com/?p=39 Doesn’t the term “treasure” (as in, “the cost of Iraq in blood and treasure”) seem kind of… weird?  Like we’re fighting dragons, or something?  Paying for our bastard swords +3 with gold pieces?  Having our gemstones stolen by orcs?

I don’t know the history of the term, as it’s now applied.  I guess the idea is that “money” makes war sound too materialistic, or something?

Insight, anyone?

(I guess “blood” isn’t totally accurate either, but it somehow seems more natural to me, as a handy-dandy blanket term for deaths and injuries.)

Greedy dragon

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