Isn’t this sort of like saying that people who commit
suicide, haven’t really committed suicide, what they have really done is defeat the demons that haunted them?
People don’t like you being the governor of their state. So you let a small group of less than 100 of them drive you from office, and then claim victory until the end of time.
And then people join you in your cause, and scream victory until the end of time with you.
General Custer should have had as loyal a post victory following. He coulda been president.
“Isn’t this sort of like saying that people who commit
suicide, haven’t really committed suicide, what they have really done is defeat the demons that haunted them?”
I think they prefer the phrase “dismounted from life”.
Isn’t this sort of like saying that people who commitsuicide, haven’t really committed suicide, what they have really done is defeat the demons that haunted them?
If Sarah Palin wasn't breathing any longer ... you might have a point, there ... LOL ... The thing is -- though -- she's not only breathing, but "breathing fire" now ... :-)
For those who are not familiar with this "battle maneuver" it's called a "breakout" ... and that's what Sarah Palin did, with her excellent political skills -- fooled the liberal leftists who thought they had her "bottled up" and "encircled". They thought they were on a "battle of attrition" at that point.
Palin fooled them all (including the Anti-Palinistas here... LOL ...) and did a maneuver similar to a military breakout, and moved her forces to the main battle lines in the U.S. and started kicking liberal butt, up and down, all over the place.
That doesn't sound like suicide to me ... :-)
General Custer should have had as loyal a post victory following. He coulda been president.
He could have -- if -- he had done a military breakout maneuver like Palin did -- and then started kicking Indian butt all over the place.
Instead, Custer "stood in place" and allowed the "Indian encirclement" to work and he lost by attrition. At least Palin was smarter than Custer was ... :-)
I have always loved documentaries and drama's on Hitler's last days and afterward (WWII in general) and in 1945 Stalin ordered Hitlers remains hidden and created the myth that he was still alive. This probably was to keep the allies in check while the cold war heated up and many German scientists were recruited by the US.
Even as late as the 1960s there was a mythology that Hitler was still alive in Argentina saved by a german U-boat, as with Martin Borrman. Meanwhile a few survivers from the Bunker made it to the West to tell the true story of his death.
The complete story came out after the cold war ended and a piece of Hitlers skull with a bullet hole was saved in the USSR that still exists.