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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]treestar
(82,383 posts)7. Holdover from the old days
Wellington and Nelson were leading troops that were really protecting England from French invasion. Washington led the army when we won our existence. So we see them as instrumental in leading our defense, etc.
Now we are not always so certain that a war is really for our defense.
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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