128 - Wrong George

It's way past time to post again. So to hurry things along I'll steal someone else’s thoughts again. Although I've had these same thoughts, this guy has put them together in a short and to the point way.

This is an editorial by Francis Carr that was printed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

WRONG GEORGE

Again our president proves he is no student of history. In trying to liken himself to a Revolutionary-era George, he picked the wrong George. It was the English king, George III, who was trying to fight a war with supply lines thousands of miles long against a determined people who refused to fight a conventional war.

As today, the British people are tired of the casualties, costs and the lack of success. Unlike any normal war of that time, with scripted battles of massed armies, the Americans refused to fight pitched battles against an army that out-gunned and outnumbered. Instead, they relied on guerrilla tactics to hit and run and fight another day. They had the advantage of being on their home turf and being excellent marksmen, and they used the element of surprise - as in the battle of Trenton - to wear down the will of the enemy to fight.