From The NY Times via truthout.org:
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021108P.shtml
Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews James J. Sheehan's "Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe," for The New York Times, writing: "At the time of the World Cup the summer before last, there was a nice cartoon in the papers by Oliphant, with two panels.
One showed 'Soccer as seen by Americans,' a group of dainty chaps prancing lightly across the grass with purses dangling from their limp wrists, and the other, 'American football as seen by Europeans,' a heap of brutally moronic humanoids using severed limbs to batter each others' brains out."
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