Posted on 03/05/2006 10:14:04 AM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
Don't. Somehow that post got hosed. I think I inadvertantly dragged some of the previous post into the new one, and didn't catch it on the preview.
Some people would claim that Stoke's Law didn't apply before the flood. Not everyone believes in mathematics.
Who said they were government IMPOSED standards, OP?
I said they were government PUBLISHED standards.
I think you overestimate the genius of Robert E. Lee, who was a military genius. It was Lee who ordered Pickett's fateful charge against the advice of Longstreet, Pickett, and others. It was the end of the southern Army.
Many would claim that Lee's right arm, Thomas Jackson, and his left arm, Longstreet, were the keys to his brilliance. Jackson perhaps more than anyone else.
Both Patton & McArthur deserve great credit. I'm not sure they deserve more credit than a nation that was willing to tolerate extreme casualty figures. (The same with Grant.)
Perhaps the real genius was the man behind the scenes who permitted Russia to absorb the brunt of the Nazi army until 1944, and the man who pushed the race for the Bomb.
Wonder who that was?
Finally, West Point is a government school.
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