Tell it to the Marines...

"I want to tell you about the United States Marines. I don't know if you are familiar with the procedure where these fine fellows are concerned. To put it in a word, they arrive. The thing works out somewhat after this fashion. A bunch of bad men are beleaguring a bunch of good men in a stockade or an embassy or wherever it may be and seem to be getting along splendidly, and then suddenly the bottom drops out of everything and all is darkness, disillusionment and despair. Looking over their shoulders, they see the United States Marines arriving, and I don't suppose there is anything that makes bad men, when beleaguering someone, sicker. The joy goes out of their lives, the sun disappears behind the clouds, and with a muffled 'Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!' they slink away to their underground dens, feeling like thirty cents." - Lord Ickenham, Cocktail Time