Posted on 05/25/2013 5:29:03 PM PDT by jaypounder
Never fight a land war in Asia... If he prepares to defend the back, the front will be weak. If he prepares to defend the left, the right will be weak. If he prepares to defend the right, the left will be weak. If he prepares to defend everywhere, everywhere will be weak..
-Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Have you ever heard the saying..."Your writing a check your body can't cash?"
I think all of us at one time or another have done things and said things that all come back to bite us in the end. However some of us never learn from those mistakes.
Take the President for example;
These past weeks have been a terrible for him.
I'm really not feeling bad for him at all though. His socialist bully like behaviors have earned him this trouble!
So unless you have lived under a rock the President is facing down some very big scandals;
https://vpn.hidemyass.com/vpncontrol/signin
(Excerpt) Read more at preparespokane.blogspot.com ...
The other great blunder is challenging a Sicilian in a game of life and death.
We kicked the living crap out of the North Vietnamese Army and would have chased them all the way to Hanoi but that we were undermined by duplicitous democrats who cut off funding for further operations.
inconceivable
yore rite of coarse
How bout Africa?
I’m still wondering if it is true that McCain blamed his buddies and US forces attacking the camps for upsetting the NVA camp keepers. He sure is acting like it with CFR/IRS/Immigration against the Tparty.
I am not sure that the word means what you think it means...
no we save that place for the genocides
Been there, done that, no t-shirt.
Good thing for Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the British East India Company, etc., etc. that they did not rely on The Princess Bride as a guide to military strategy.
Indeed, for all it prowess, the asian soldier starves off quickly and loses all discipline, it’s why you got Pol Pot killing fields and what not. Now the northern siberian huskies Stalin used in WWII are a different story.
I have never heard a good explanation as to why the Son Tay camp was empty when we raided it and tried to rescue the POWs.
I don’t think they knew exactly what we were up to or they would have been waiting for us. On the other hand they did have a bunch of troops in barracks near there.
Probably the real adage should be “Don’t fight a war in which you don’t intend to win”.
***** “Now the northern siberian huskies Stalin used in WWII are a different story.” ******
Heard that they were Tasty, Jrandom may even have a recipe.
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He also talks of “government breakdown”, as if government was like a cash machine of liquidity... err... it’s not a bank. The government has specific guidelines whom it considers paid recruits.
Hey Poundcake.. why have you excerpted your own blog?
History won't.
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