William S. Burroughs Mildred Pierce Reporting (old Sarge)
			
Mildred Pierce reporting:
I was there. I saw it. I saw women thrown down on Fifth 
Avenue and raped in their mink coats by blacks and 
whites and yellows while street urchins stripped the 
rings from their fingers. A young officer stood nearby. 
"Aren't you going to do something?" I demanded.
He looked at me and yawned.
I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking at the Ritz. I 
told him bluntly what was going on. His eyes glinted 
shamelessly as he said, "Well you have to take a broad 
general view of things."
And that's what I have been doing. Taking a broad 
general view of American troops raping and murdering 
helpless civilians while American officers stand around 
and yawn.
"Been at it a long time, lady. It's the old army game 
from here to eternity."
This license was dictated by considerations taken into 
account by prudent commanders throughout history. It 
pays to pay the boys off. Even the noble Brutus did 
it...
Points with his left hand in catatonic limestone.
"The town is yours soldiers brave."
Tacitus describes a typical scene... "If a woman or a 
good looking boy fell into their hands they were torn 
to pieces in the struggle for possession and the 
survivors were left to cut each others' throats."
"Well, there's no need to be that messy. Why waste a 
good-looking boy? Mother loving American Army run by 
old women, many of them religious, my God; hanging 
Amercian soldiers for raping and murdering 
civilians..."
Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity.
"WHAT THE BLOODY f..ckING HELL ARE CIVILIANS FOR?
SOLDIERS' PAY."