Posted on 12/27/2017 7:02:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
America has always enjoyed two antithetical traditions in its political and military heroes.
The preferred style is the reticent, sober, and competent executive planner as president or general, from Herbert Hoover to Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter.
George Marshall remains the epitome of understated and quiet competence.
The alternate and more controversial sorts are the loud, often reckless, and profane pile drivers. Think Andrew Jackson of Teddy Roosevelt. Both types have been appreciated, and at given times and in particular landscapes both profiles have proven uniquely invaluable.
Grant/Sherman Both Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were military geniuses. Grant was quiet and reflective at least in his public persona, which gave scant hint that he struggled with alcohol and often displayed poor judgement about those who surrounded him.
Sherman was loud. He was often petty, and certainly ready in a heartbeat to engage in frequent feuds, many of them cul de sacs and counter-productive.
Sherman threatened to imprison or even hang critical journalists and waged a bitter feud with the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
Too few, then or now, have appreciated that the uncouth Sherman, in fact, displayed both a prescient genius and an uncanny understanding of human nature. Whereas Grant could brilliantly envision how his armies might beat the enemy along a battle line or capture a key fortress or open a river, Shermans insight encompassed whole regions and theaters, in calibrating how both economics and sociology might mesh with military strategy to crush an entire people.
For all of Grants purported drinking and naïveté about the scoundrels around him, his outward professional bearing, his understated appearance of steadiness and discretion, enhanced his well-earned reputation for masterful control in times of crises.
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No need. Fact is Patton’s family was of the confederacy. It was a very sad time I find deeply disturbing as many of my relatives lie rotting in shallow graves because of poor political leadership.
Are you saying that LRM is not a threat to the people living in Seoul?
I'm pretty sure Crazy Chia Pet could brighten up Seoul pretty effectively.
I am 64 Years Old and the only time I used a Lawyer is when we put the Family Trust together.
If I had to do it again, I would use an Online resource.
What a racket these guys have made for themselves, and they get into Politics to run (ruin) our Lives and take away our God Given Freedoms.
My Wife’s friend is married to a Workman’s Comp Lawyer. Nice guy but a flaming Lib who tried and failed to get out from under his College Student Loans.
Made me laugh. Sign on the bottom line and live up to your promise, period. He acts like a Victim because he has to write a Check every Month.
Help me, here...I have a lot of regard for VDH, but I can't get past that.
As I wrote to another; The list of the misdeeds in the legal profession is too long to review in a single comment; judges taking bribes, sending innocent people to prison, extorting a piece of every business, making a 100,000 regulations-laws-rules for their own benefit, to the complete fabrication of legal attacks on innocent people, to a single contemptible lawyer in a blackrobe throwing out millions of votes for political gain. Ive sat across the courtroom and watched too many times to stomach, these shysters put together a string of legal lies to make me wretch for a week. These shysters run every branch of government and are responsible for putting us in this mess called the DC empire. No one can escape their tentacles, no one.
There is a difference between a perceived threat and an imminent threat
Kim knows only to well that any attack on Seoul will result in his own personal death
It is the reason that "Sherman" is considered a swear word in the South.
Kim also knows that, were he not able to threaten Seoul, he would already be dead.
You almost never have a completely “free” market.
We have a mostly free market in labor.
I’m pretty sure Crazy Chia Pet could brighten up Seoul pretty effectively.
Unions extort dues from how many laborers? Minimum wage laws?
May they all rest in peace.
Happy New Year, FRiend.
(From a Bronx Buffalo)
Yes, there are government interferences in the labor market.
But I said “mostly”, which I believe is correct.
It is a judgement call.
Thank you very much. And a Happy New Year to you.
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