"We will ride him until he's either dead or surrenders."

Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, commanding general of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade moving into the Helmand River valley in southern Afghanistan.   Excellent.   Appears to be a very sound fellow, with the right attitude, in my view.   Considering he's talking about the Taliban and al Qaeda, I'm rather keen on the 'dead' option.   And he bares the scares of the fight from five years ago. "A rocket came into my office, killed Maj. Kevin Shea, who was my communications officer in there with me, and wounded me," he recalled.   Just under his left shoulder is an empty space that buckles through his uniform, large enough to swallow a fist.   "I lost most of my lats, my scapula was shattered. So I had a pretty good hole in my shoulder and back there," he said. Thanks to SondraK

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