Horror and moral terror are your friends
Фраза "ужас и моральный террор" происходит не
из песни Летова и даже не из другой (и существенно
более хорошей) песни Манагера; эта фраза происходит
из русского перевода Apocalypse Now.

Вообще монолог полковника Курца есть
чрезвычайно важный текст; наряду с
"fear is the mind killer" Герберта.
Такие вещи следует учить наизусть.
В младших классах причем.

Потому что объясняет, почему вьетнамцы
победили американцев, палестинцы
уничтожат евреев, чеченцы прогонят
русских с Кавказа. И почему они
будут правы.

Люди, которые таких вещей не понимают,
не должны существовать. Потому что западло.

Война есть зверство. Тот, кто
хочет воевать без зверства - малодушный
подонок и лицемер. И его уничтожат.


Colonel Kurtz's monologue

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right
to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right
to do that... But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for
words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what
horror means.

Horror. Horror has a face... And you must make a friend of
horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not
then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.

I remember when I was with Special Forces... Seems a thousand
centuries ago... We went into a camp to innoculate the children. We
left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and
this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't
see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every
innoculated arm. There they were in a pile... A pile of little
arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried... I wept like some
grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I
wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget
it. I never want to forget.

And then I realized... like I was shot... Like I was shot with a
diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead... And I
thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do
that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could
stand that these were not monsters... These were men... trained
cadres... these men who fought with their hearts, who had families,
who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the
strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of
those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to
have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to
utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling... without
passion... without judgement... without judgement. Because it's
judgement that defeats us.