Posted on 02/06/2024 10:56:42 PM PST by RandFan
They were, in fact, better than most of their contemporaries.
Not just anyone succeeds so well at a vastly complex job like that.
It pays to read history. Indeed, you can depend on George Patton on that, he was a voracious reader - and superior indeed, another such case. He could quote Polybius and Livy at need. Book suggestion- on Patton, get Ladislas Farago. Carlo D’Este is better sourced and more scholarly, but Farago was a better writer.
Moors?
In Spain, it is people from former Spanish colonies and Eastern Europe that make up the bulk of immigrants. Spain has a pretty smart immigration policy, unlike France and Germany.
Madrid does not look like Paris or (good Lord) London. Or NY or LA.
I am verbose, yes.
Its just my way. I married my technical writer (really, my editor). It just had to happen, unavoidable.
So deal.
Btw, are you done biting people who agree with you? My wife (editor) wants to shop. I get to carry things.
It drives you crazy when someone refuses to acknowledge your unfounded belief in your own superiority.
I note you dislike having suggestions put towards your country, yet you feel qualified to throw shade at us?
We didn’t capitulate to terrorists like Spain did after Madrid.
So superior.
Which is the Ukraine going to run out of first? Soldiers, or US taxpayer money?
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