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Trump’s obsession with WW2 generals strikes sour note with historians
oan ^ | February 25, 2016 | Emily Flitter

Posted on 02/25/2016 4:56:21 PM PST by sparklite2

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Donald Trump admires the late Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, both World War Two generals. They were winners, unpredictable, and not especially nice guys, he says in campaign speeches. But Trump's pledge to imitate their styles sets modern-day military experts on edge.

Born in 1946, a year after World War Two ended, Trump often praises MacArthur and Patton for the blunt ways he says they commanded respect. "George Patton was one of the roughest guys, he would talk rough to his men," Trump told an audience last week in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "His men would die for him," Trump added. "We don't have that anymore." He said Patton would wipe out Islamic State without hesitation were he still in command.

But military historians and retired generals say Trump has an inflated view of the two military men and especially their relevance to an era of modern warfare when armies rely more on technology and when battle successes and failures and civilian casualties are communicated far more rapidly than when MacArthur and Patton commanded troops 70 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: tdsincomingbigtime; trump
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To: traderrob6

Andrew Jackson was one of the crudest rudest men. Certainly grant had his moments as well. You worry to much about appearances. The library’s all said similar things about Reagan. How did that work out?

As to Andrew Johnson worked out just fine the system gives us exactly what we want at the time


161 posted on 02/26/2016 12:59:52 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
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To: sparklite2

My recollection was that he was a corporal, one of the permanent party. All I remember is there was a courts martial going on, one of us asked what it was, and the DI told us.

It could not have been one of us as we’d only been there a couple days, just got our uniform issue. There was just no way any of us could have even met her.

One of the pleasant things about history, is the commander had a wife and we can safely say the wife was a “she”, that is someone born a female and retained that identity. In today’s armed forces one has no idea.


162 posted on 02/26/2016 3:02:10 AM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Dead Dog

Dugout Don? :)


163 posted on 02/26/2016 3:07:34 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Hoodat

Don’t forget Albert Kesselring. He drove us nuts in Italy. Made Mark Clark look like an amateur.


164 posted on 02/26/2016 3:31:51 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Metz is interesting and has been fought over many times. Field Marshal Bazaine ordered by McMahon to hold it famously remarked:”Nous sommes dans un pot de chamber et nous serons emerdee.”


165 posted on 02/26/2016 3:45:09 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Nifster

That’s over 200 years ago and a completely different time....slavery was legal, a third of the country was illiterate, 15% of women died at childbirth.

Gimme a break, it’s ridiculous and totally specious to make any such comparison.


166 posted on 02/26/2016 5:34:50 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: laplata
But Trump's pledge to imitate their styles sets modern-day military experts on edge'.

That's because today's military leadership are mostly gutless, Politically Correct political ass kissers so they can get their first or next star.

Right on the nose brother. Obama has pretty much purged the military of any generals who are not at least 90 percent wussies.

167 posted on 02/26/2016 5:52:20 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: sparklite2

TODAY’S GENERALS NEED TESTICLE IMPLANTS.......

will the PC / Libtard “modern army”....... (remember the essential job of an army is to kill and destroy unbtil the enemy is dead or surrenders.... ) WIN Any wars.....??? or just look and smell good....

and dont forget the gender issues and the required sex change operations and breast implants and penis implants the army will take to the battlefield with....

hey Caitlyn.... nice tits where’d you get them... fort dix..???
hey Mary youre hung like a Bramah bull .... yep .... fort dix... Caiylyn dontaed them...
the duece and a half with tampons is just down the road a click and the ammo gets here next week... meantime we can read the bomb run warning pamphlets ....

I think i’ll just curl up in my Louis Vouitton tent and drift off to neverneverland...
wake me when this nasty war is over....


168 posted on 02/26/2016 7:21:13 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Merci! C’est formidable! :>) I love French history. Thanks for a new one to add to my list.


169 posted on 02/26/2016 8:02:32 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: sparklite2

That accusation was a liberal lie made up out of whole cloth that was refuted many times over as were all the other lies the left they made up
You want to see the truth about him read Manchester’s American Caesar


170 posted on 02/26/2016 8:36:21 AM PST by uncbob
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To: Mollypitcher1

Not sure what you are talking about. By the summer of 1944, Oz was under no threat whatever from the Japs.


171 posted on 02/26/2016 1:21:07 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (Will Trump's inaugural address be longer than 140 characters??)
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