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At West Point, It’s Goodbye Grant and Lee, Hello Ali Baba
US Defense Watch ^ | April 25, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 04/25/2016 12:12:02 PM PDT by pboyington

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To: pboyington

The fork in the road was September 11, 2001.

Thanks George. Thanks Republicans. Thanks FOX, Sean, Rush, and Mark for providing cover to the politicians all these years as they commit the most egregious acts of negligence in American history.

Sure, obama, jarrett, clinton, et.al., are bad, but the Founders knew their kind would come up from time to time. They could have been stopped right in their tracks, per the Constitution.


21 posted on 04/25/2016 1:45:04 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: pboyington

One of the many reasons why we should never over-revere the military.

They can be turned against us, as they are at the duty of the gov.


22 posted on 04/25/2016 2:10:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: pboyington

It never ends... :((


23 posted on 04/25/2016 2:22:56 PM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Theodore R.
Over half of the the states have opposed Obama in court over various aspects of immigration and Obamacare. CA passed both a statute and constitutional amendment that kept real marriage. The rise of Trump is indicative of widespread disgust. Etc.

The corrupt liberalism you speak of is being imposed; it isn't welling up from the grassroots.

24 posted on 04/25/2016 3:11:59 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: pboyington

You would think that West Point would send cadets on field trips to places like Gettysburg or to one of the many Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and other Civil War battlefields on the East Coast.


25 posted on 04/25/2016 3:30:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: 2banana

We must remember this is Obama’s Army; an Army slowly being eaten alive by the cancer of political correctness.


26 posted on 04/25/2016 3:31:29 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: pboyington

For later


27 posted on 04/25/2016 3:32:09 PM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pboyington
West Point requires cadets to take multiple courses in history and military history as part of the core curriculum, regardless of major. If they aren't already, they will become very familiar with the great commanders of US military history. The maps on the History Department webpage are my go to reference for any battle or war in which the US Army was involved. Needless to say, the author is not a graduate.

If the past is any measure these future officers will be deployed at some time to a Muslim country, perhaps multiple deployments. It seems to me a pretty sensible idea to have them meet some Muslims who won't be trying to kill them and learn something about the culture.

28 posted on 04/25/2016 3:50:52 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Patton had that same approach.
He read the Koran on the ship ride to N. Africa in WW2.


29 posted on 04/25/2016 3:53:05 PM PDT by nascarnation
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He read the Koran on the ship ride to N. Africa in WW2.

And with the added benefit that he had a ready source of toilet paper upon his arrival.

30 posted on 04/25/2016 3:55:18 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Crump or Lose 2016)
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To: Sirius Lee

“To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. . . . Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity.”


31 posted on 04/25/2016 4:00:20 PM PDT by nascarnation
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True. Patton also read Rommel’s book, although the movie took some license with that because the book was actually entitled “Infantry in Attack.” Rommel wrote it before he became a tanker. Still, know your enemy is a tried and true tactic.


32 posted on 04/25/2016 4:00:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: pboyington

Grim.


33 posted on 04/25/2016 4:06:42 PM PDT by karnage
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To: ExNewsExSpook

Ooo-rahhh


34 posted on 04/25/2016 8:23:16 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Yes, Marine Corps Mobile Training Teams to conduct Unconscious Bias training


35 posted on 04/25/2016 8:25:03 PM PDT by pboyington
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West Point investigating black female cadets' raised-fists photo
36 posted on 05/09/2016 5:50:51 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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