Posted on 09/23/2004 11:55:07 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
That, FRiend, is the most dangerous thing you could have said.
And you're thin-skinned like Kerry, too, and speak in non-sequiturs.
Amazing.
I'm scared. Ping who you want if you can't fight your own battles.
So, someone who emulates a bigoted leader from a lost cause, is better?
Classic example of the headline not really relating to the points made in the actual article.
Where did I say I emulate him?
I admire his military genius, particularly since he didn't have any formal military training.
Later great generals like Patton and Rommel both considered his tactics and strategies to be required reading.
Ghengis Khan was a great military mind.
So was Xerxes, and Nebachadnezzar.
Alexander the Great was a great military mind, Atilla the Hun, Julius Caesar, Sparticus, and Wellington.
You sound like someone who is very bitter about history.
Like a certain rumored dead muslim who mourned for Moorish Spain and had a certain gleeful interest in certain dates in history and their significance with muslim history.
Statements like yours can be aimed at anyone.
Think a little beforehand please.
It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.
You seem to have stumbled into the wrong forum, sir.
And knock off the attacks on Old Sarge.
This is not the place to interject causes of the war, racist comments, or anything of the like. Drop the white sheet stuff, others have gotten banned for that in the past.
Burgoyne had been an excellent general once.
I do believe he attacked me, sir.
Hmm now?
I have no problem with respecting NB Forrest's skill as a military man. Nevertheless, the founding of a fortune based on the selling of fellow humans speaks more to me of his human nature than public platitudes late in his life.
Maybe he did repent his sins, but unless he made recompense to every human he sold on the auction block, that repentance was sorely late and lacking.
You're on your own on this one.......:^)
How does objectively admiring a brilliant strategist for being a brilliant strategist make me "bitter about history?"
Post 11 started the attack. Repairman made a legitimate observation in post 2.
Thank you, sir.
You are probably also know that Grant, as president, sent Mosby to China on a diplomatic mission.
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