Among Shreveport's claims to fame: it was the last Confederate capital of the South and its only militarily undefeated one during "the
Late Unpleasantness Between the States." In retrospect, I believe that Harold and I lived parallel lives in the South in many ways and he enriched me from afar.
He clearly had immigration on his mind when he wrote it, as well as the
Late Unpleasantness and the Social Question (i.e., the violent conflict between labor and capital).
Kilcullen updates and recasts this framework in terms of the so-called "global war on terror" (or "long war" or "
late unpleasantness" or whatever the preferred nomenclature for this twilight struggle is).
Wilf was born during the Second World War, which he describes as 'the
late unpleasantness'.
It is one of those days during the
late unpleasantness, sometimes called World War II.
The evidence presented in a Fort Benning courtroom condemned them both." It is unlikely that anyone with significant knowledge of the Army or the
late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia, upon reading these two sentences, would respond other than with a scatological barnyard expletive or some more genteel utterance representing the same level of acceptance.
During the
late unpleasantness in Iraq, there was nary a nationally known politician who spoke against the war.
It has been called the Uncivil War, the Brother's War, the Old Confederate War, and my personal favorite, the
Late Unpleasantness. The war ended when Gen.
The
late unpleasantness in the Balkans and the long string of Arab-Israeli conflicts--to use Edward Luttwak's own examples of paradigmatic conflicts rudely interrupted by the frivolous motives of the West--were all inspired by territorial and genocidal inclinations.
This is not a surprise, of course, but a fact frequently downplayed, even overlooked, in basic studies of the "
late unpleasantness." Professor Rable, whose previous books have revealed much about Southern society, has pulled Confederate political affairs--local and national--to center stage.
No one who cares for the integrity of the founding principles of the Republic, in other words, can afford to be anything less than skeptical when the summons to war is sounded--most especially when it is sounded in the distinctively British-imperial tone of the
late unpleasantness in Mesopotamia.