01-10-2010, 12:09 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Interesting challenge, Charles, especially in light of the recent reference to Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill as Custer-like in his inability to gage the scope of the thing, or to see all the Indians behind the hill.
One additional point: Custer knew well enough how many hostiles were "behind the hills." His battle plan would have worked had Benteen come on quickly.
Or at least so say I.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene