It was absolutely breathtaking. I could not believe what I was hearing. It was precisely, quintessentially backwards. Utterly and completely wrong, a perfect 180ยบ off from reality.
Yesterday, addressing a captive audience of National Guardsmen, he compared the war in
The president, who was accompanied by senior adviser Karl Rove, began his remarks by comparing today's soldiers to those who fought in the Revolutionary War.
The president mentioned Adam Stephen, a Revolutionary War general who founded Martinsburg, a city of 15,000 in the panhandle of
Good lord, does he actually believe that load of bovine effluent? Does he really?
If so, it is begging for an accurate historical compare and contrast.
Prior to the War for
The colonists adopted guerrilla tactics to counter a much larger and superior army, and wear down the will of the English to continue the fight led by Mad King George. The more effective the guerrillas became, the more brutal the English army became. Then, like now, the increased brutality of the invading forces just serves to anger the natives and strengthen their resolve.
In the narrative Mad King George insanely tries to sell, the invaders are righteous and the local populations are evil. Exactly the opposite as the story the way we learned it in civics class. And then there is the parallel of George, the mad potentate, the most incompetent leader in the history of the nation, who mismanaged the war, constantly changed the objectives and failed to truly support his troops.
[Cross posted from Blue Girl, Red State]
