Il Douche thinks he's Lord Cornwallis...

[BiggJawn]

Just listened to his weakly radio address (no, that's not a typo) and the one thing that stood out to me was his assertion that the "insurgents" (Resistance) are pussies, because they "won't meet us in Open Battle"...

Just like the English Generals complained about a bunch of farmers and tradesmen hiding behind trees, picking off rows of well-ordered Redcoats.

You're mired in a Guerilla war, Chimpy, better have Rumsferatu/Docter Strangelust study up on the Maquisards to develop a new "Stratergy"...

[aquart]

1. Eh. He didn't stay awake in American History I, either. Oh well.

[acmavm]

2. If you actually had the stomach to listen to his whole address then I'm

sure that you picked up on the simple fact that blivet is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Just one of the weakest and most corrupt who will do or say anything, or front for anyone, to make people think he's not the failure he really is.

[genie_weenie]

3. Well, as he was protecting the Fatherland during Nam

I guess he missed out on the whole assymetrical fighting that went on over there... He could ask Dick, that guy had some chutzpah during the 60s and he knows what it's like to face someone and shoot them at 30 yards...

Sometimes, I think * has played to many games of Risk at Yale (I know he wasn't learning anything) and he views all warfare as a static contest where two sides line up and the one with more (usually) wins.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Hello, el Chimpe, they don't have to meet you in open battle

to win-look at Viet Nam, for heaven's sake! You were there--oops, no you weren't. Maybe if you'd gone you would have learned something.

[peekaloo]

5. Lord Cornholio

not enough TP in the world for his bunghole.

[Benhurst]

6. Yeah, they won't even meet Dubya's mercenaries out in the open. NT

[onager]

7. "We can lose every battle and win the war...

The war will be won in the hearts and minds of the people."--Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War general.

Since British troops could not tell the difference between friends and enemies (and behaved accordingly), the British ended up making enemies of virtually everyone they came in contact with.

As historian Pauline Maier has pointed out, the British army was the best friend the revolutionaries had. Everywhere they went their arrogance and the destruction they left turned friends into enemies and inspired the native population ever more against the British cause.

Greene’s strategy worked brilliantly. His forces lost every major engagement with the British, but military victory was not his goal. By the fall of 1781, the British troops found themselves exhausted and isolated in Yorktown, Virginia, where ultimate defeat awaited them.

While I doubt that Osama Bin Laden is familiar with the intricacies of the American Revolution, it is clear that he is using a strategy similar to that of General Greene...

Historian John Keegan has pointed out that this same unfortunate situation overwhelmed the Americans in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and it is bound to happen to us yet again. We are already witnessing a destabilization of support for the US in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as the native populations come face to face with the effects of American military might.

It is Nathaniel Greene all over again.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken51.html