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WINNING BIG (Mr. Peters Analysis Both Knowing and Reassuring)
New York Post ^ | March 24, 2003 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 03/24/2003 4:04:52 PM PST by conservativecorner

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

March 24, 2003 -- IN combat, the ideal leader is the man who remains calm and methodical under fire. Today's 24/7 broadcast news demands just the opposite: raised voices, an atmosphere of crisis and a rush to judgment. After declaring victory on Friday and Saturday, a number of media outlets all but announced our defeat yesterday, treating the routine events of warfare as if they were disasters.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; journalists; perspective; peters; ralphpeters; realitycheck; warishell

1 posted on 03/24/2003 4:04:52 PM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
bttttttttttttt
2 posted on 03/24/2003 4:06:49 PM PST by dennisw
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To: conservativecorner
Yes, a nice article indeed.
3 posted on 03/24/2003 4:11:01 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dennisw
I read this to two of my classes today. Very "on target."
4 posted on 03/24/2003 4:11:30 PM PST by LS
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To: dennisw
Three Ralph Peters columns inthree days, and not a thing about modern chicks in any of them.
5 posted on 03/24/2003 4:15:34 PM PST by dts32041 (Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4".)
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To: conservativecorner
A useful antidote to the nattering nabobs of negativism.
6 posted on 03/24/2003 4:15:40 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: LS
Glad to see some university students are getting proper educations.
7 posted on 03/24/2003 4:16:05 PM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw
bump
8 posted on 03/24/2003 4:16:09 PM PST by HapaxLegamenon
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To: conservativecorner
Already being discussed here:

Winning Big

9 posted on 03/24/2003 4:17:13 PM PST by TomB
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To: conservativecorner
Ever wonder how todays medeia would have handled the Battle of the Bulge?
10 posted on 03/24/2003 4:35:48 PM PST by L`enn
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Ever wonder how todays medeia would have handled the Battle of the Bulge?

Yes, and I'm sure Lincoln didn't have a face for TV, he never could have won.

11 posted on 03/24/2003 5:17:39 PM PST by Mister Baredog ((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
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To: conservativecorner
A God Bless America bump!
12 posted on 03/24/2003 5:36:46 PM PST by Diva Betsy Ross ((no more movies anymore))
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To: conservativecorner
There must be a couple of military historians on here at Free Republic; isn't the bump and run concept described on TV just another version of MacArthur's Island plan?
13 posted on 03/24/2003 6:15:02 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: L`enn
Ever wonder how todays medeia would have handled the Battle of the Bulge?

We don't really have to wonder, do we? How about D-Day or Iwo Jima?

Hell, come to think of it, how about Pearl Harbor?

Oh, what did we do to make the Japanese hate us?

14 posted on 03/24/2003 7:33:43 PM PST by San Jacinto
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To: conservativecorner
They lost 19, we lost 3000 on 9/11. I believe when this war is over, the disparity will be even greater in our favor.
15 posted on 03/24/2003 9:04:30 PM PST by Russell Scott (Iraqi soldier, is it really worth dying for the Butcher of Baghdad?)
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To: conservativecorner
**We're winning, the Iraqis are losing, and the American people have executive seats for what may prove to be the most successful military campaign in history.**

Bush Bump!
16 posted on 03/25/2003 9:12:12 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: conservativecorner
**They appear to be from the fidayeen, gangs of murderous thugs, and from the security services and the Special Republican Guards - the regime's Gestapo and SS.**

Calling it like it is. I like this guy.
17 posted on 03/25/2003 9:16:32 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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