Replies

As you read this you will get chills up your spine as you realize that here is a man who understood war and the key to victory very early on in his military career. We have the the Democratic Majority mentioning guys like Andrew Jackson and Dwight Eisenhower. In this time of war we should be turning to the man who, without question, was the best modern military commander ever to wear the uniform of an American soldier - General Eisenhower feared Patton's popularity with the American people, Bradley was nowhere close in talent to Patton, General H. "Stormin' " Norman Schwarzkopf used classic manuvers that were clearly taken from Patton's playbook, and the Germans alternately respected him and feared him.

We need a modern day leader with Patton's understanding of what we must to to win in Iraq. Yeah the weapons are different, but effective leadership is a constant ingredient that is in far too limited of a supply in the Beltway.

Yeah the weapons are different, but effective leadership is a constant ingredient that is in far too limited of a supply in the Beltway.

Not only is leadership in short supply inside the Beltway, but the cajones to use the weapons to their maximum potential is absent....

Mention of the optimists would be incomplete without some reference to those super visionaries, the Pacifists.

Like the Specialists, the stupendous nature of their claims gains a hearing and effects a due consideration of war by the fact that it influences the minds of potential soldiers and hampers the activities of the armed forces by way of reduced financial support. To these people the history of the race, from the fierce struggles in primordial slime to the present day, is a blank. At their bidding all is changed. In a moment, the twinkling of an eye, the lion loses his appetite and the lamb his fear. Avarice and ambition, honor and patriotism are no more, all merge in a supine state of impossible toleration. To them the millions who have nobly perished for an ideal are fools, and a sexless creature too debased to care and too indolent to strive is held up for emulation.

Nor are they deterred in their schemes for complete disarmament by the fear of cost to themselves or their country because, for themselves, they know that by benefit of sex, weak eyes, flat feet, or a limber conscience they will avoid the conflicts that their unarmed policy will produce. For their country they care not at all -- let it perish; so long as they may survive.

Thank God (the real one) for men like Patton. Awesome read.