[DesertRhino]

Burn the boats is a bunch of old world Euro BS. The best amphibious force on planet earths history is the US Marines. We don’t burn our own boats, and we still took the islands.

[drewh]

burn the life boats of the RINO’s in Washington, not the patriots draining the swamps

[poconopundit]

It's rare, but sometimes burning the ship is the best way to win. The Tripoli pirates were about to use the captured USS Philadelphia to savage US shipping throughout the Med.

But Stephen Decatur and his men aboard the sloop Intrepid got the job done and lived to defeat the pirates another day on the shores of Tripoli....

[gleeaikin]

Maybe it’s just an old fashioned concept. Cortez burned his boats and took his 150 men to conquer the Aztecs. Of course he also had as allies a lot of angry Tlaxcallans and other tribes that were mighty tired of being eaten by Aztecs. A recent predecessor of the Aztec’s leadership had proposed to make the Tlaxcallans our bread. In fact in Aztec (Nauhatl language) tlaxcalli is the word for tortillas.