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To: jalisco555

George Washington was also pretty good at the strategic retreat.


13 posted on 10/16/2006 5:50:42 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
George Washington was also pretty good at the strategic retreat.

LOL, practice makes perfect. Washington did that a lot. But it turned out OK in the end.

14 posted on 10/16/2006 5:52:57 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: Moonman62
George Washington was also pretty good at the strategic retreat.

Strategic is right ... he was leading a distinctly inferior force ... keeping it in existence was itself a victory. Add to that, each time he retreated he first exacted from his enemy a high price for making him retreat. Under the right circumstances, that can be a winning strategy.

23 posted on 10/16/2006 6:01:43 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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