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2017-12-30 -Land of the Free

The Bigmouth Tradition of American Leadership

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Posted by 746 2017-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Lots of war criminals cited in that article: LeMay, Sherman, Grant, Lincoln. They would have hung...should have hung. So much for the Lieber Code or Geneva Conventions. Guess it helps to be on the winning side.

Posted by DooDahMan 2017-12-30 03:44|| 2017-12-30 03:44|| Front Page Top

#2 First rule of law warfare - win. Winners get to write the history as well. BTW, there was no Geneva Convention the time of the American Civil War. Yet they only hung one of the Southern officers after the end, commandant of the Andersonville prison camp.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-30 06:36|| 2017-12-30 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 In other words, Trump is pissing off all the right people.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-12-30 10:52|| 2017-12-30 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 All (true) morality is based on reciprocity - only an idiot (like Bush II or any other Pub Pol) can be polite to screaming, feces trowing, bandar-logs of the "cognitive elites".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-30 12:42|| 2017-12-30 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Two points:

1) Eisenhower: As his Presidential papers are declassified, we are discovering President Eisenhower had a hidden talent - he spotted small problems and prevented them from becoming big ones. He didn't have to handle many crises because he the crises never arose in the first place.

2) Patton's sure-handedness stemmed from his knowledge of weapons and tactics. Whenever he stopped at an American position, he would check out the machinegun and antitank positions. It is easy to be decisive when you have a solid grasp of the details.

On the other hand, he tended to ignore logistical matters, thereby ensuring that his troops would run out of gasoline in front of the enemy.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2017-12-30 14:49|| 2017-12-30 14:49|| Front Page Top

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