"... you seem to have an agenda here, not sure what it is. Respect the natives? Seems to me America colonized its western frontier, as Europe had colonized the new worlds before it, by generally ignoring that sentiment. Shouldn't that be the true lesson here? Because respecting the ways of your enemy for the purposes of utterly destroying it is different from what you seem to be intimating. Or what exactly are you trying to say? That America's military suffers from a Braddock like arrogance? At this late date in these humbling wars? That I think would be quite a statement, which is why I think that is not your intention... just more liberal blather then... but for the facile edification of what?... or whom?..."
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Response to Ricks suggesting story of General Braddock's demise at hands of French and their Indian confederates in 1755 ambush contains a lesson for America's military: