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In reply to the discussion: Why Does the Media Make Our Generals Into Heroes When the Wars They Commanded Are Failures? [View all]Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)39. Robert E. Lee Syndrome
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Why Does the Media Make Our Generals Into Heroes When the Wars They Commanded Are Failures? [View all]
xchrom
Dec 2012
OP
Same reason we still remember Homer's Odysseus, but forget the Peloponesian wars destroyed Greece
leveymg
Dec 2012
#1
Wish you would elaborate on this a bit. Homer was\is a great poet and the
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#14
"History is written by the winners." That includes Thucydides and Herodotus "factual" accounts, as
leveymg
Dec 2012
#17
It's been quite awhile since I read Homer, Herodotus or Thucydides and I may have
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#18
Iraq is within Iran's sphere because the majority of the population is Shi'ia. When Bush overthrew
leveymg
Dec 2012
#21
I agree with you on one level (hence my comment that "perhaps that's as it
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#23
The US armed both sides against each other, and have successively destroyed each. The timeline is
leveymg
Dec 2012
#26
Well, the jury is still out on Iran. Last time I checked it had 1,000,000+ soldiers in its
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#27
There are nightmare scenarios other than a direct invasion of Iran to worry about.
leveymg
Dec 2012
#29
Still working in some quarters for Powell, too. I guess Custer just had lousy P.R.
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#10
Not only their wars, their own personal fuck-ups: Poppy BUSH; Mc5planes; Shrub; Colon POWELL n/t
UTUSN
Dec 2012
#11
They think we still need father figures, or maybe it's them that like's father figures. nt
bemildred
Dec 2012
#12
According to American mythology, everyone in the military is automatically a hero.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#41