"Quick. Can someone please refresh my memory?"
Be thankful our returning Marines are disciplined enough to not fragg the MSM. I've heard quite a few talking about it.
"Be thankful our returning Marines are disciplined enough to not fragg the MSM. I've heard quite a few talking about it."I'm not thankful.Sooner or later they will turn on the MSM and I'm with the Marines.They will also run for office and they will have an attitude. Hoorah
"Be thankful our returning Marines are disciplined enough to not fragg the MSM. I've heard quite a few talking about it."
I hope they don't do it. Yes, the MSM does deserve it. Yes, the Marines have served admirably and sacrificed.
But the great ultimate hope that we all have is that we can preserve our free society. One required cornerstone of that society is the rule of law.
These Marines might quiet their souls by reading about George Washington. George, as our history, politely sidesteps, was one mean, sonuvagun.
In the early part of the war, American troops, while having good shooting skills, had no bayonet skills at all. Most of the battles ended the same way. The British fixed their bayonets (or whatever), they charged, and, ultimately, the Americans fled. In one battle, George Washington, a tall man for his time, riding his large white horse, started striking the fleeing American soldiers with the flat of his sword. Finally, all the Americans were gone and George sat on his horse, glaring in rage at the approaching British. Nathaniel Greene, his second-in-command, came riding up, grabbed the bridle of his horse, and pulled it away to safety.
Yet throughout it all, through Congress, continually shortchanging his need for supplies; through a period of time when some charlatan challenged his qualifications for supreme command, and almost managed to usurp him; etc., George was unremittingly subservient to civilian authority.
After the war, the United States went through a period of time under the Articles of Confederation, a weak form of government, based on the fact that Americans were afraid of tyranny. Then they wrote and adopted our Constitution, a strong form of government, based in part on a powerful, independent executive, the President. Making this transition to a strong government was very difficult psychologically for Americans, but there is no doubt that the greatness of our nation is in large part the result of such a shift.
The transition was made easier by the presence of someone who everyone in the country could trust as the first President. George Washington.