I totally agree with you on the Bush/Lincoln analogy.
Lincoln, like Bush, trusted Generals who were too willing not to use the proper amount of force. It is telling that both Abizaid and Casey were shown the door, as well as Rumsfeld.
I have to take some exception about Nixon. Nixon threw down the Linebacker campaigns when the North Vietnamese got squirrely, and his Chinese gambit threw Soviet diplomacy out the door in 1971.
Nixon was undone by his own demons, sad to say. I always had a sneaking admiration for the sumbi*ch.
Bush knows what Patton knew: "Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time! I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost, and laughed!"
Be Seeing You,
Chris
The Dems/Socialists/Communists led by Pelosi/Hitlery/Obama HATE AND DESPISE FREEDOM. As do those we face in the Islamic extremist world.
A friend of freedom is President Bush - that makes him the avowed enemy of satan and his hordes throughout this sick world. How blessed we are and are the people of the world to have this man as the leader of the United States and of the world.
A modern day Patton would say:
Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great War on Terror?", you won't have to say, "Well... I just sat there and swallowed the sh*t fed to me from the Drive-by Media."