How much effect could five men have on the battle field?
Imagine the ancient world without Alexander, Napoleon, Caesar, Hannibal, Attila.
Imagine more recent history without John Paul Jones, Lafayette, Joan of Arc, Robert E. Lee, or Rommel.
Imagine history without Churchill, Lenin, Lincoln, Washington, or Gandhi.
Imagine a world without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Caligula, or Obama.
Sadly, we are releasing five of our enemy’s senior leaders, and these men will have added credibility as survivors of Gitmo, not to mention as those on the winning side of a trade for one treasonous deserter. What difference will they make? I suspect we will find out, and when we do, Obama will announce that he heard it on TV and is very angry at the republicans who allowed the next big terrorist attack to succeed (probably because we didn’t stop global warming, and the Taliban are just lashing out because climate change is disrupting their lives).
Well said
We don’t even have to go very far back into history to learn the lesson of why just one man can make a difference!
General Douglas MacArthur was deemed so valuable to the war effort that President Roosevelt ordered him to flee Corregidor to avoid, even a chance, of capture. Does anyone not agree that the President made the right call and removed MacArthur from a perilous situation.
I’ll bet the Japanese sure thought he was valuable to the Allied effort.