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To: mom4melody

I’m not sure that’s good, look what happened to Caesar.


2 posted on 10/17/2016 6:45:25 AM PDT by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: JPJones
look what happened to Caesar.M/i>

Look what happened to the republic. I think the comparison is very apt, and that's what worries me. While Trump is clearly preferable to the criminal Clintons, I am not confident about his commitment to constitutional principles. He gets my vote because Hillary must be stopped, but I am not joyful about it.

8 posted on 10/17/2016 6:54:22 AM PDT by Romulus
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General George S. Patton, of World War II fame, was just such an impetuous crusader. Impatient of waiting for Lord Montgomery, when the opportunity to cross the Rhine came, Patton sent all the available forces he could muster to pour through that breach into the still Nazi-controlled part of Germany, and set out not just for Berlin, but with the ultimate goal of reaching Moscow. HUGE panic in the Roosevelt war room in Washington, screaming STOP STOP STOP!!!

Reluctantly, Patton listened to the voices on the radio, and obeyed, withdrawing to behind the Rhine until Montgomery could quit fumbling around. Next time, swore Patton, after I cross the Rhine I am just going to smash all the radios and head right into the Russian advance. The plan was to accept the surrender of the Wehrmacht, but stockpile their surrendered weapons, then using the captured soldiers, armed and equipped, and now much better supplied, to be the spear thrust against the advancing Russians.

But Eisenhower pretty much sidelined Patton for the remainder of the war, and in the aftermath, in one of those strokes of history, Patton was a passenger in a staff car that was struck by a US Army supply truck, and died as a result of the injuries. Had he gotten back to the US, he would have blown apart the whole political landscape in the postwar era, predating Joe McCarthy by many years.


12 posted on 10/17/2016 7:05:15 AM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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