Kim's press is like the generals medals. They have as many as ten or twelve of the same medal and get a ribbon for each one.
Posted on 12/27/2017 7:02:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
America has always enjoyed two antithetical traditions in its political and military heroes.
The preferred style is the reticent, sober, and competent executive planner as president or general, from Herbert Hoover to Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter.
George Marshall remains the epitome of understated and quiet competence.
The alternate and more controversial sorts are the loud, often reckless, and profane pile drivers. Think Andrew Jackson of Teddy Roosevelt. Both types have been appreciated, and at given times and in particular landscapes both profiles have proven uniquely invaluable.
Grant/Sherman Both Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were military geniuses. Grant was quiet and reflective — at least in his public persona, which gave scant hint that he struggled with alcohol and often displayed poor judgement about those who surrounded him.
Sherman was loud. He was often petty, and certainly ready in a heartbeat to engage in frequent feuds, many of them cul de sacs and counter-productive.
Sherman threatened to imprison or even hang critical journalists and waged a bitter feud with the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
Too few, then or now, have appreciated that the uncouth Sherman, in fact, displayed both a prescient genius and an uncanny understanding of human nature. Whereas Grant could brilliantly envision how his armies might beat the enemy along a battle line or capture a key fortress or open a river, Sherman’s insight encompassed whole regions and theaters, in calibrating how both economics and sociology might mesh with military strategy to crush an entire people.
For all of Grant’s purported drinking and naïveté about the scoundrels around him, his outward professional bearing, his understated appearance of steadiness and discretion, enhanced his well-earned reputation for masterful control in times of crises.
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VDH misspelled “Pendergast Machine” in the article.
America loves a winner, warts and all.
I don't think anyone employs editors anymore...not even VDH.
Yes, interesting.
Editors are expensive.
Good find.
That is because American citizens, who call themselves Americans, know that there was only one without warts, and his followers built this beacon of freedom.
Editors are not paid enough. Twenty bucks an hour is not expensive.
Many writers work for much less.
[Sherman was loud. He was often petty, and certainly ready in a heartbeat to engage in frequent feuds, many of them cul de sacs and counter-productive.]
Reminds me of a WW2 General too.
The WWII general did not use the military to attack fellow Americans, to pit brother against brother and family against each other. There is a difference.
Guess I walked right into that one.
I’ll respectfully bow out as I have no desire to refight the Civil War here on this thread.
Prior to Sherman's march, civilized countries fought outside civilian centers, sparing non-combatants. After Sherman, non-combatants became hostages.
Seoul is currently being held hostage by Little Rocket Man and most of the rest of us are being held hostage by the threat of nuclear war.
Do you $20 an hour is enough. The average crooked lawyer makes $250
Kim's press is like the generals medals. They have as many as ten or twelve of the same medal and get a ribbon for each one.
No need to go to the expense when he can just post it here and wait for the resident grammar police.
Do you $20 an hour is enough. The average crooked lawyer makes $250
It does not matter what I think. The market decides.
There are also lots of starving lawyers.
Most lawyers I know would love to make $250 an hour. Most make no where near that.
I don’t know where you live but, $250 an hour is small town lawyer rate in Missouri. Many in STL and KC make $400.
I understand, but do we really have a free market?
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