Of course we don’t, because we need big bangs and explosions in everything from war to action movies, when what we really need is strategy to manipulate the enemy. As Patton best said, you get the poor $%^$* to die for their country.
You seem to be a blogpimp.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:davybuck/index?tab=articles
Got any thoughts on that?
Patton took a bum rap even during WWII. He was ‘ill fitted’ even back then!
Slapping a man [with your gloves] who is raving hysterically and attempting to shame him often does the trick. In a crisis, it is dangerous to not consider ‘jolting’ people back to their senses and shaming people as ‘cowards’. Pricking peoples’ pride is often helpful. And field medics have important work if such distraction can be avoided. It could save lives, prevent gangrene, and save limbs.
A true ‘shell shock’ patient can be treated gently after an attempted jolt. Such a minor moment is nothing in the long run, just as spanking helps children learn to behave.
These days, Political Correctness and cocktail parties are much more important than winning wars or protecting the lives of our troops.
Coincidentally, only a very small percentage of the slime in congress and DC ever served in the military, certainly not the foreigner parading around as CIC.
It would be interesting to see what Patton’s opinion of Obama would be.
Patton wouldn’t get anywhere NEAR being a general, or leader of any kind in the military today. He had a tendency to speak his mind, making people uncomfortable. Hell, he was even too much for the political types in the military back then. I don’t believe they could get rid of him, because he was so good at what he did, and he was popular. I believe Eisenhower hated him, as did many others. The people he served with loved him.
There are theories that the Russians had him killed while he was in the hospital after the car accident. He was definitely on Stalin’s sh1t list. Patton wanted to join up with the Germans(after getting rid of the Nazis) and drive the Russians out of Europe. History proved him to be quite right. I understand that Churchill regretted not doing so, after the fact.
That was a significant time, that shaped the history of the past half Century, and continues to do so. 0-Tard seems to be doing his best to piss away all of the real progress we have made since then.
Ya know what?? If Apollo 13 had had the people running NASA today none of the crew would have survived!!!
Uh, we couldn’t have had one back then either...hence, he had an “accident.”
If they couldn’t handle General George Patton 70 years ago there’s not a chance today.
Patton knew the military was to “defeat the enemy on the field of battle.”
Today’s military is a social playground for every miscreant in DC.
The Army brass in Europe tried to slow down, hinder, and even stop Patton, Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Montgomery. If they had let him run free, I really believe he would have ended the war a lot quicker. And nipped the plans of Stalin in the bud while he waa at it. His tactics were the kind the Germans had respect for, and were afraid of.
>We Could Not Have a General Patton Today<
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Politicians today would be afraid of him as they were in 1945 and they would find a way to kill him as they did then.
We wouldn’t need a Gen. Patton today....
Because Obozo wouldn’t retaliate for Pearl Harbor or Side with the Brit’s against the Nazi’s.
This also suggests a fact that has come to be very much over-looked in the contemporary media bias against traditional Southern culture, and that is the tremendous contribution that the Military tradition of many families in the Old South has made throughout American History.
General Patton was a true American hero, whose brilliance in the field, undoubtedly shortened World War II in Europe, saving many thousands of lives. May his memory always be honored by true Americans.
William Flax