Over valued alliances
In "The Crecy War" Lt. Col Alfred Burne explains the French defeat by Edward III's English army.
"...On one side was trained disciplined, well-armed and confident army, fighting for all it knew with its back to the sea, with no hope of escaape if it were defeated. On the other was a largely untrained army, hastily colleced from differing lands, races and tongues, each unit unkown to and distrusted by its neighbors, lacking cohesion, order and respect for authority. Such an army was calculculated to disintegrate when buffeted, and disintegrate is precisely what it did...."
This piece of history shows the weakness of the Kerry strategy for dealing with Iraq. Add this news on the pullout of Spainish and Honduras troops and Thailand's threat to pull its troops if they are attack and you get the impression that coalitions are not that helpful.
" 'If we get hurt or killed, I will not keep them there,' Thaksin told reporters a day after Honduras followed Spain in announcing they would pull their troops out of Iraq."
They were routed faster than a US liberal. It is "High Noon" and these guys are going to let Gary Cooper do the tough work of facing down evil.
In "The Crecy War" Lt. Col Alfred Burne explains the French defeat by Edward III's English army.
"...On one side was trained disciplined, well-armed and confident army, fighting for all it knew with its back to the sea, with no hope of escaape if it were defeated. On the other was a largely untrained army, hastily colleced from differing lands, races and tongues, each unit unkown to and distrusted by its neighbors, lacking cohesion, order and respect for authority. Such an army was calculculated to disintegrate when buffeted, and disintegrate is precisely what it did...."
This piece of history shows the weakness of the Kerry strategy for dealing with Iraq. Add this news on the pullout of Spainish and Honduras troops and Thailand's threat to pull its troops if they are attack and you get the impression that coalitions are not that helpful.
" 'If we get hurt or killed, I will not keep them there,' Thaksin told reporters a day after Honduras followed Spain in announcing they would pull their troops out of Iraq."
They were routed faster than a US liberal. It is "High Noon" and these guys are going to let Gary Cooper do the tough work of facing down evil.
Comments
Post a Comment