http://cominganarchy.com/2005/03/28/bushs-reading-list/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:30:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://cominganarchy.com/2005/03/28/bushs-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-2145 Alfred Wallace Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:25:18 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/03/28/bushs-reading-list/#comment-2145 I am listening to Ellis's "His Excellency George Washington". It describes how long it took Washington to realize that the only way to defeat an occupying power by force of arms was to "wait it out" until the occupiers made enough mistakes that they could be beaten. All that was required to maintain public morale was an occasional battle that could be spun as a victory. It seems that the Iraqi and Afghani insurgents may have stumbled on the same lesson independently: certainly Ho Chi Min seems to have done so.. I wonder whether Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld have read the book"¦ Perhaps they think they will be much more effective than British General Howe was all those years ago"¦. ..but I wonder"¦. I am listening to Ellis’s “His Excellency George Washington”. It describes how long it took Washington to realize that the only way to defeat an occupying power by force of arms was to “wait it out” until the occupiers made enough mistakes that they could be beaten. All that was required to maintain public morale was an occasional battle that could be spun as a victory. It seems that the Iraqi and Afghani insurgents may have stumbled on the same lesson independently: certainly Ho Chi Min seems to have done so..
I wonder whether Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld have read the book”¦ Perhaps they think they will be much more effective than British General Howe was all those years ago”¦. ..but I wonder”¦.

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