tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3262125016923451355..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: British, American and other Nato troops have been so long in Afghanistan – twice as long as the second world war – that perhaps their leaders have forgotten what the original mission actually was. In fact, it began as a war to destroy al-Qaida, crush the Taliban and capture or kill their leaders, Osama bin Laden and Mullah OmarDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31090942172186990522013-12-20T04:31:16.267-05:002013-12-20T04:31:16.267-05:00Its best blog where we can see all the news about ...Its best blog where we can see all the news about america and gain more information when we stay here. nice discussion about the topic. thanks for sharing.<br /><br /><a href="http://instaphamous.com" rel="nofollow">get followers on instagram</a><br /><br />AlizeKendalhttp://instaphamous.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91825267970502234442013-12-20T01:49:43.851-05:002013-12-20T01:49:43.851-05:00
bob<br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34506253984720772402013-12-20T01:47:09.871-05:002013-12-20T01:47:09.871-05:00noun: resolve; plural noun: resolves
1.
f...noun: resolve; plural noun: resolves<br /><br /> 1.<br /> firm determination to do something.<br /> "she received information that strengthened her resolve"<br /> synonyms: decision, resolution, commitment <br /> <b>"he made a resolve not to go there again"</b><br /><br />"Don't feed the asshole!"<br /> <br />heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18690448391843557382013-12-20T01:40:31.036-05:002013-12-20T01:40:31.036-05:00
allen makes the fundamental error, where he has a...<br />allen makes the fundamental error, where he has a solid argument, he despoils his own position.<br /><br />Aiming to discredit the source attacks the credentials of the conduit with an Abusive Ad Hominem against Anonymous, which is but a conduit of data.<br /><br />Data presented initially by Stephen E. Ambrose, allen, who based his argument on the lack of historical knowledge base of the coduit was slaughtered by the expertise of the source.<br /><br />heh, heh, heh<br /><br /><br />bob<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1411926167565356132013-12-20T01:29:37.339-05:002013-12-20T01:29:37.339-05:00
“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and i...<br />“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.” <br />― Sun Tzu<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48596024758449503782013-12-20T01:25:19.743-05:002013-12-20T01:25:19.743-05:00
“I will find a way -- or make one.”
― Hannibal<br />“I will find a way -- or make one.”<br />― HannibalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76013984107084784282013-12-20T01:23:57.248-05:002013-12-20T01:23:57.248-05:00“Imagination is the creative force that through ne...“Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.”<br /><br />― Steven Redhead, <b><i>The Solution </i></b>Steven Redheadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81734575128927632862013-12-20T01:08:55.853-05:002013-12-20T01:08:55.853-05:00But then again, you cannot.
Because you are uncre...But then again, you cannot.<br /><br />Because you are uncredentialed, you are an anonymous contributor, unpublished.<br /><br />Not so for Stephen E. Ambrose.<br /><br /><br />As for your resolve, it did not last a day.<br /><br /><br />heh, heh, heh.<br /><br /><br />bob<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85426158875402368252013-12-20T01:06:34.666-05:002013-12-20T01:06:34.666-05:00See above and respond, if you want.
Print your ed...See above and respond, if you want.<br /><br />Print your eductional and professional background, <br />match Stephen E. Ambrose, if you can, Fünfte Kolonne von Teamleitern<br /><br /><br />bob<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72783316911612198322013-12-20T01:03:25.683-05:002013-12-20T01:03:25.683-05:00Stephen E. Ambrose
Ambrose was a history professo...Stephen E. Ambrose<br /><br />Ambrose was a history professor from 1960 until his retirement in 1995,<br /> having spent the bulk of his time at the University of New Orleans, where he was Boyd Professor of History.<br /><br />During the academic year 1969-70, he was Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College. <br /><br />In 1970, while teaching at Kansas State University, Ambrose participated in heckling of Richard Nixon during a speech the president gave on the KSU campus. Given pressure from the KSU administration and having job offers elsewhere, upon finishing out the year Ambrose offered to leave and the offer was accepted.<br /><br /> Ambrose also taught at Louisiana State University, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, U.C. Berkeley, and a number of European schools.<br /><br />He was the founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans and President of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />The National Geographic Society provided Ambrose with an Explorer-in-Residence position.<br /><br /><br />Writings<br /><br />Ambrose's earliest works concerned the Civil War. <br />He wrote biographies of the generals Emory Upton and Henry Halleck, the first of which was based on his dissertation.<br /><br />Early in his career, Ambrose was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue.<br />In 1964, Ambrose took a position at Johns Hopkins as the Associate Editor of the Eisenhower Papers, a project aimed at organizing, cataloging and publishing Eisenhower's principal papers. <br /><br />From this work and discussions with Eisenhower emerged an article critical of Cornelius Ryan’s The Last Battle, which had depicted Eisenhower as politically naîve, when at the end of World War II he allowed Soviet forces to take Berlin, thus shaping the Cold War that followed.<br /><br />Ambrose expanded this into a book,<br /><b><i> Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe.</i></b><br /><br />In 1964 Ambrose was commissioned to write the official biography of the former president and five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower.<br /><br />This resulted in a book on Eisenhower's war years (published 1970) and a two-volume full biography (published 1983 and 1984), which are considered "the standard" on the subject.<br /><br /> Ambrose also wrote a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. <br />Although Ambrose was a strong critic of Nixon, the biography is considered fair and just regarding Nixon's presidency.<br /><br />His books, Band of Brothers (1992) and D-Day (1994), presented from the view points of individual soldiers in World War II, brought his works into mainstream American culture. <br /><br />His Citizen Soldiers, and The Victors became bestsellers. <br />He also wrote the popular book, The Wild Blue, that looked at World War II aviation<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose<br /><br />And your references are what, exactly, allen?<br /><br />Other than that you are a Fünfte Kolonne von Teamleitern<br /><br /><br />bob<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66624338783443854772013-12-20T00:59:45.108-05:002013-12-20T00:59:45.108-05:00Silly one line zingers are no match for a knowledg...Silly one line zingers are no match for a knowledge of history.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86007730049686936632013-12-20T00:57:45.533-05:002013-12-20T00:57:45.533-05:00The crushing defeat of the German Army by the Russ...The crushing defeat of the German Army by the Russians at the Battle of Kursk took place nearly a year before an American boot touched European soil on D-Day. Although the Russian losses were staggering, Russia had a huge reserve and fully functioning manufacturing platform. The Germans did not. From that point until the end of the war, Germany was unable to mount an offensive operation on the Eastern Front.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12140205510746858762013-12-20T00:31:20.842-05:002013-12-20T00:31:20.842-05:00You have it right.
General Whacky has it wrong.You have it right. <br /><br />General Whacky has it wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75146140374813871032013-12-20T00:20:15.499-05:002013-12-20T00:20:15.499-05:00Hitler began the war with the best army in the wor...Hitler began the war with the best army in the world. It was also the best equipped. Hitler was an astute politician and an abysmal general. Boy Scout training had nothing to do with the defeat of Germany. Mass production, the likes of which the world had never seen, chewed Germany to bits. Millions of Russian casualties suffered in a slow, methodical, years' long counterattack played a/the key role in the disintegration of the German armies. Russia did <b>not</b> have Boy Scouts.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73024137985037644802013-12-20T00:13:50.716-05:002013-12-20T00:13:50.716-05:00I read that the General in question was General Qu...I read that the General in question was General Quirk.<br /><br />The M.O. certainly fits.<br /><br />Reckless drunken womanizing deep in foreign territory, and a true concern for others, at least when occasionally sober.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80418979104807738622013-12-20T00:06:00.002-05:002013-12-20T00:06:00.002-05:00“There are some people who think you have to hate ...<i>“There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don’t think you do. It’s just business.”</i><br /><br />General Mattis, USMCallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9347853455121849682013-12-19T23:43:16.622-05:002013-12-19T23:43:16.622-05:00This general was forced to retire by the Obama adm...This general was forced to retire by the Obama administration. It is reported that he did not blend well with the president's civilian staff.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdheroes.com%2F%3Fp%253D10238&tbnid=VPunUJl5RWAusM:&docid=Sw8o-md0sAS1hM" rel="nofollow">General Mattis</a>allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81507080389064320652013-12-19T23:32:44.679-05:002013-12-19T23:32:44.679-05:00Report: U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fra...<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-us-air-force-general-drank-too-much-fraternized-with-foreign-women-in-moscow/2013/12/19/7f3cdba0-68ed-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html" rel="nofollow">Report: U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow</a><br /><br /><i>“I realized that this was putting us all at risk, especially Russia and women, and I just wanted nothing to do with that,” a female U.S. official</i><br /><br />I am not sure how to take the accusation of putting Russia and women at risk.<br /><br />The General may have smoked cigars as well.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32820908466397103602013-12-19T23:21:34.617-05:002013-12-19T23:21:34.617-05:00
“The revolution in global communications thus for...<br />“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”<br />George Shultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65304095449077660862013-12-19T23:14:41.322-05:002013-12-19T23:14:41.322-05:00Talk about training children to be soldiers ...
“...<br />Talk about training children to be soldiers ...<br /><br /><i><b>“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, <br />raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. <br /><br />He lost that bet. <br /><br />The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”</b><br />― Stephen E. Ambrose</i><br /><br /><br />[;-)<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31803424109723807172013-12-19T23:02:47.597-05:002013-12-19T23:02:47.597-05:00That is true, Farmer Fudd, but almost every foreig...That is true, Farmer Fudd, but almost every foreign manufacturer has a co-venture with a US firm.<br /><br />Chevrolet in China, Ford has factories in China and Brazil.<br />Chrysler/Jeep is an Italian company, called Fiat. <br /><br />You are thinking like a neanderthal, again, Fudd.<br /><br />It is the 21st century, a global economy. <br />We are talking about investment flows and returns on investment and the costs of debt service, <br />not naked nationalism. <br /><br />Nationalism is dead, it died in a bunker in Berlin.<br /><br /><br />bob<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33302339929996710752013-12-19T21:15:59.501-05:002013-12-19T21:15:59.501-05:00Is the Duck Dynasty a Dead Duck?
It was one of th...Is the Duck Dynasty a Dead Duck?<br /><br />It was one of the reforms Raul put before their 'congress' back a few years ago. Which they have duly passed.<br /><br />Had nothing to do with a handshake with The One/The Won.<br /><br />We are not the only country that makes cars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44484044264202071212013-12-19T20:43:28.380-05:002013-12-19T20:43:28.380-05:00Congress has become such a bore to the Won. Congress has become such a bore to the Won. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25710384115797755462013-12-19T20:41:47.135-05:002013-12-19T20:41:47.135-05:00"simple" handshakes<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=stalin+hitler+shake+hands&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=tZ6zUq75LIX4kQeKl4Eg&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=916#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=7IiYlIRksZRA7M%3A%3B7tReWhZqZ1rAvM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252F31.media.tumblr.com%252F2940b55a07dbd424736429ea17def819%252Ftumblr_inline_mxm2z1ifLS1rf82hy.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgettyimagesarchive.tumblr.com%252Fpost%252F69625949507%252Fhistorical-handshakes%3B500%3B390" rel="nofollow">"simple" handshakes</a>allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28268526121724911072013-12-19T20:38:39.442-05:002013-12-19T20:38:39.442-05:00It would take an act of Congress.It would take an act of Congress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com