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To: Moonman62
George Washington was also pretty good at the strategic retreat.

LOL, practice makes perfect. Washington did that a lot. But it turned out OK in the end.

14 posted on 10/16/2006 5:52:57 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: jalisco555
"LOL, practice makes perfect. Washington did that a lot. But it turned out OK in the end. "

A couple of hundred years later a guy by the name of Muhamed Ali gave that maneuver/tactic a name: "Rope-a-Dope" ;-)

52 posted on 10/16/2006 6:55:00 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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