Ironically without Stalin, and the "motivational techniques" employed to get Russian soldiers to meet certain death in Stalingrad, "our side" might have lost the war.
Victor David Hanson writes about revisionist ankle-biters and the "various second-guessing"..."diminution of the American contribution and suspicion of our very motives." (In WWII)
I especially like his concluding paragraphs.
"...the beneficiaries of those who sacrificed now ankle-bite their dead betters. Even more strangely, they have somehow convinced us that in their politically-correct hindsight, they could have done much better in World War II.
Yet from every indication of their own behavior over the last 30 years, we suspect that the generation who came of age in the 1960s would have not just have done far worse but failed entirely."
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I was about to post my answer "Rot in Hell" then I figured your's was more than enough answer.
Even the Germans get it
Posted by: Justin | May 12, 2005 02:38 PM
Ironically without Stalin, and the "motivational techniques" employed to get Russian soldiers to meet certain death in Stalingrad, "our side" might have lost the war.
Posted by: Rick DeMent | May 13, 2005 08:18 AM
Victor David Hanson writes about revisionist ankle-biters and the "various second-guessing"..."diminution of the American contribution and suspicion of our very motives." (In WWII)
I especially like his concluding paragraphs.
"...the beneficiaries of those who sacrificed now ankle-bite their dead betters. Even more strangely, they have somehow convinced us that in their politically-correct hindsight, they could have done much better in World War II.
Yet from every indication of their own behavior over the last 30 years, we suspect that the generation who came of age in the 1960s would have not just have done far worse but failed entirely."
Posted by: Justin | May 13, 2005 05:50 PM