Posted on 11/09/2001 7:04:15 AM PST by Roger_W_Isom
Within the last 15 MINUTES NORTHERN ALLIANCE HAVE CLAIMED THAT THE STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT CITY OF MAZAR-E-SHARIF HAS BEEN ENTERRED BY THE FORCE OF THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE!! It is now apparrent that the Taliban control is on the VERGE OF COLLAPSE and IF the NA troops have capturedthis town THING COULD HAPPEN IN RAPID SUCCESSION FOLKS
Your screen name would appear to fit nicely. ;^)
Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson trounced union armies up and down the Shenandoah valley by hitting hard and then hitting the road. At Port Republic, he was trying to keep two union armies apart, and his strategy was to split his army, fight just long enough to make the union armies useless for the siege of Richmond, and then head for the hills, literally.
Strategic withdrawls can work. Holding ground is not necessarily the best way to win a war, especially when you face a fluid enemy, as the Taliban do.
Gosh, I love Norah O'Donnell.
Well, we definitely know the best way NOT to divide a country is to knock down a couple of their 110 story buildings and kill a few thousand of their civilians.
Whew! For a minute there I was getting ready to surrender to the invading ant aliens like Simpson's Kent Brockman did.
Whew! For a minute there I was getting ready to surrender to the invading ant aliens like Simpson's Kent Brockman did.
Hey, great minds think alike. Just two hours and 15 minutes after my above comment was posted, Jonah Goldberg also referred to Kent Brockman's surrender to the ants.
Here's the link to the article
And here's an excerpt from Jonah:
One of my favorite scenes in The Simpsons (as longtime readers know) is when Homer is selected to join a space-shuttle mission. News anchor Kent Brockman is scheduled to interview the shuttle crew while Homer and the rest of the crew are in orbit. But just before they "switch live" to the craft, there's a mishap on board. Homer, unaccustomed to weightlessness, has smashed an ant farm they brought with them. When Kent Brockman cuts to the live feed from the shuttle, the garden-variety ants float by the TV-camera lens momentarily appearing gigantic. Then, they lose the picture.
Brockman, like so many TV newsmen, responds instantly with his gut impressions: "Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over 'conquered', if you will by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to... toil in their underground sugar caves."
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