[Non-Sequitur]

If alive today, do you think George would still think that those comments he made then are still Germain?

Unlike all y'all I don't pretend to know what Washington would say. I would like to think that he'd believe the whole country was worth fighting for instead of running away.

[central_va]

I would like to think that he'd believe the whole country was worth fighting for instead of running away.

Ah, I don't think so. He would probably consider the Constitution null and void and the famous question to Franklin in Philadelphia answered -- answered in the NEGATIVE.

[lentulusgracchus]

I would like to think that he'd believe the whole country was worth fighting for instead of running away.

You mean, like Pope at Second Manassas, or Rosecrans at Chickamauga?