Posted on 09/28/2008 12:40:20 PM PDT by meandog
The Washington Post has a long running affection for the Soviet Empire. When it was argued that America had given more lives in combat service to other countries, the Post came out with an editorial denoting the Soviet sacrifices in WWII far exceeded the American casualty count. Ergo, we should see the Soviet Stalin as the great sacrificial humanitarian not any American president.
Its amazing that these things called newspapers still publish.
He even got his facts wrong. Overlord was a 2.8 million man operation. Barbarossa was 3 million. So numerically, it was pretty close. But McCain didn't say "largest," although it was probably that too, once nonhuman elements (ships,planes, all kinds of supplies) are factored in.
Everybody knows what McCain meant. He was talking about amphibious operations.
How did that nazi invasion of Russia turn out anyhow?
I think McCain was making reference to a successful invasion.
It is however, worth remembering that during the D-Day landings, the allies had total air and naval superiority and they were fighting against forces that were for the most part, the dregs of the German Army. Those too old, ill, or green to fight on the Eastern Front, which was the front which had top priority for the Nazis. Both the Germans and the Russians were throwing the best they had at each other....
WAPO: “Hitler did it better”
bah
The Posties know that (one must presume).
Easily the greatest seaborne invasion in history, which is more of less implied.
They left out Jengis Khan overruning New Haven on Christmas Day 1968, while President Reagan lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Nazi Germany, as Joe Biden would be glad to point out.
It (the Normandy invasion) would have been dwarfed by Olympic and Downfall, the operations planned for the invasion of Japan in late 1945 and early 1946, but fortunately for all concerned, President Truman rendered those invasions moot through the use of advanced technology.
McCain brought it up only as context for the story of General Eisenhower writing two letters the night before the invasion. One praising the valor of the troops (to be read if the operation were successful) and one resigning his command, should the mission fail, which was quite possible. McCain used this as an illustration of accountability, something he lamented had been lost with most in government 'service' as well as in private business. I can't argue with him.
The Washington CommiePost ignored McCain's broader point (accountability) in order to nitpick about the size of the Normandy invasion. Petty and transparently antagonistic. I can't wait until these lefty dinosaur rags finally go out of business from lack of readers and advertisers for their vacuous twaddle.
The Russian operation was not a military invasion. It was part of a continuing follow-up campaign of pursuit of fleeing forces characterized by both armies having been in constant contact.
D-Day was an invasion, characterized by the need to establish a beachhead in an enemy-fortified mainland in which one goes from no contact with the enemy to immediate contact. Literally, they went from zero presence to a huge beachhead in the matter of a month.
And no doubt The Post will find evidence that D-Day wasn’t also “The Longest Day.”
Anything to bash America, past or present.
I’m sure the author sent off a nasty letter to Tom Brokaw demanding that he change the title of his book:
“To the attention of Mr. Brokaw:
In the interests of accuracy, I strongly recommend that you change the title of your recent book The Greatest Generation.
Statistically, the generation of children born between 1980 and 1990 was the largest ever recorded, so therefore the title of your book is inaccurate and must be changed.
Very Truly Yours,
Michael Dobbs,
Dimbulb-without-portfolio,
Washingtonpost.com”
Michael Dobbs:
Why don’t you get your “patriotic” pal Nine Percent Nancy to continue her Hiroshima tour and visit the graveyards of Normandy?
Then get back with us, ok?
Thanks for fact-checking the fact-checker...He seems to want to point out that Hitler's 3 million also went in to Russia in one felled swoop...
Pravda on the Potomac shoots itself in the foot once again.
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