Now that France has inaugurated the EU mutual defense clause (rather than the Nato ditto) and is coordinating with Russia who has finally admitted
yes, there was a bomb just as Mr. Obama said several days ago, and now that the US and Turkey are also working together, the script is being rewritten.
I can't help being reminded of how the blitzkrieg changed when Hitler opened a second front in WW II and blithely marched his troops off in the direction of Moscow. It didn't happen at once, but it happened, a bite too big to chew, that was the turning point.
(Clarification. In re-reading this I see that it is not clear that I meant that ISIS has bit off more than it can chew by attacking Turkey, Russia and France in a short period of time.)
I am also reminded of all the photos of those young men frozen in the snow outside Stalingrad. They too were indoctrinated by a decade of membership in Hitler Youth.
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History does repeat itself. General Sherman said it: War is hell.
Quote:
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.
Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860), as quoted in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell. Also quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative (1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58.
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It will get worse, much worse, before it gets better. And many innocent people will die.
Cross-posted with the above rant.