Dr Sowell seems to have his history confused. Sen Cruz IS our Gen Washington.
I just read a great piece (posted on another thread by NEWwoman) written by David McCollough (author of 1776) that actually compares Washington’s battle against the British troops as the Dunkirk of the Revolution. Here’s a snippet of that article....
THE GLORIOUS CAUSE OF AMERICA
By David McCullough
But then, in a miraculous escape from Brooklyn Heights on the night of Oct. 29, we got back across the East River and were saved. It was the Dunkirk of the Revolution. If the wind had been in the other direction that night or the two or three nights preceding it, there’s not much question that the war would have been over then because Washington and 9,000 American troops would have been captured. If the British had been able to bring their warships up into the East River, between Brooklyn and Manhattan, they would have had us right in the trap. But because there was a howling storm out of the northeast, they weren’t able to do that.
Washington ordered that every possible small craft be rounded up and be made ready to bring the army back to New York. It was to be done at night. An organized retreat for an experienced army is the most difficult maneuver of all when faced by a superior force. But for this amateur pick-up team, this rude, crude, un-uniformed, undisciplined, untrained American army of farm boys—some of whom had been given a musket and told to march off only a few weeks before—for that kind of an army to make a successful retreat across water at night, right in the face of the enemy without the enemy knowing, was a virtual impossibility. And yet they did it.
http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=1746
Sen Cruz is the brave General showing us the way. Shame on Dr Sowell and Ann Coulter for suggesting retreat.
Lovely excerpt. Thank you.