Those whose jobs depend on maintaining, "The military/industrial/congressional complex."

[another_liberal]

24. How similar those claims are to some others made about Russia . . .

Napoleon Bonaparte claimed: "The Russian Empire will shatter with my first blow, and the Czar will be murdered in a palace coup shortly thereafter." In fact, Czar Alexander presided over the peace conference in Paris which sent the defeated and deposed Napoleon into exile.

Hitler promised his doubtful generals that a war against the Soviet Union would be a walk-over. He noted that a year earlier, "They barely even managed to defeat the Finns!" Hitler would die by his own hand only four years later, as Soviet soldiers closed in on the last few hundred yards that still remained of his once vaunted "Thousand Year Reich."

A century before either of the above examples, the Swedes' Charles the XII was decisively defeated in battle and forced to flee into Turkish exile as his whole "Nordic Empire" was cast into ruin because of his vain attempt to conquer Peter the Great's Russia.

Now you are pedaling the same misconceptions in 2016? Why, in the name of all things redundant, do something like that?


"Rule one on page one of the Book of War is: Don't march on Moscow."