We are at war - mistakes will be made, people will be killed, the enemy will sometimes outsmart us, etc. I find this whole expectation that we should never suffer setbacks or make mistakes very annoying.

I remember reading how during the Guadalcanal campaign Nimitz would constantly remind his gloomy subordinates that the enemy was suffereing and losing ships also.

In his memoirs, Grant (when he was just a militia colonel) wrote about leading a regiment to attack a Confederate camp. He was scared and kept imagining everything that could go wrong. He was outnumbered, it was a trap, etc. He got to the camp and the Confederates had run away. He used that to remind himself that the enemy is also scared and also screws up.

I forget which general said that you can not judge a battle by the rear area of your own army. There will always be wounded, confusion, people running away, etc. The media coverage now does this.

For those who love America's enemies (Dean, Kennedy, Schumer, Reid, Pelosi, Moore, Turner, Etc., etc., etc.) and hate America (the same ones or their ilk that thought Uncle Joe was an o.k. guy, that Ho Chi Mihn was misunderstood, etc., etc., etc.), surrender is not an option, it's the only way. They not only think this country is just like all the others, they refuse to even consider that there is something great about it. Right now, 64 years ago today, 98 years ago when we were saving France's butt the first time, 229 years ago. It, to them, is nothing special.

They all ought to pack up, go where they think the country is special, and take their millions that they got from the sweat of other peoples' brows (why do they hate capitalism? It made them rich enough to be pigs). That way, those of us who do think this country is special can work to make it even greater than it already is.

Carlos you stupid fuck, why don't you shut your face before you make an even bigger fool of yourself. Did you not get an education or are you just naturally stupid?

I see our favorite mockingbird is back in town.

Hello PLV. Afraid to show your true colors, as it were?

Please, don't placate.

Sortelli: Bein's how Ah'm jist a dum cuntry boy and yur a rele sity slickr, maybe yu kin tell me where Ah'm rong ther? Do Kennedy, Reid et al (see? Fancy ferrin werds!) not consider this country as jist one of a bunch on this planet? Didn't the "progressives" of the earlier yeres think Uncle Joe was an o.k. guy, an' Pol Pot, an' Ho, an' Mao?

Mebbe Ah was a bit over the top invitin' them to leave, but gosh dangit, it's frustratin' dealin' with fools who cain't see the truth if it's bashin' in their noses, people like yu.

Shur hope when it's all over yure one of the "more equal then the others", cuz yu obviously no whut's better fer the rest of us mor'n we duz.

Carlos, that wasn't really Sortelli.

It was a troll pretending to be Sortelli. Check the email address.

The faint smell of Mountain Dew and stale Pop-Tarts indicates the presence of Proud Liberal Vet.

At least he didn't duplicate the email address this time. You can still tell that its him, but its more of a banning offense.

a liar, a coward, and a bore.

trifecta!

PLV-Poor Little Victim--or maybe Punk Lib Vermin

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Cain't say it makes a whole lotta difrence - Ah'm still jist a dumb cuntry boy thet never haid no larnin'. Mebbe.

It always amazes me how intellectually superior the libs are to us dumb folk. And they can't even figure out the real reason the Twin towers were bombed, why Pearl Harbor was attacked, or why Genghis Khan ran roughshod over Asia!

Like when Bubba was sayin' "It's the economy, stupid", all I got to say is, "It's human nature, stupid".

Not all jackasses bray some go CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK