"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
Almost as well as Caesar!

"Butch Davis" wrote in message
ink.net...

Napoleon? Did pretty well for a while, eh?

Butch
"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On this day in 1862 the French, the one nation that has never had a
major military victory, had their asses handed to them by the Mexican
Army.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

Just another contribution to the French schizoid personality of
feeling superior while actually being inferior. :)

Later,

Tom


Au contraire, mon ami.

You forget that the French won the French Revolution.
Of course, they were fighting the French.





Lest we forget, the US did not win the two major fighting wars it was
involved in after WW II.

Hehehe. Gulf Wars I and II don't "count" in Harry's book (I suppose because
we "won" them).

It got out with a "draw" in Korea,

Because we figured it would simply take too long and too much money to kill
1 billion Chinese.

and was whipped by Vietnam. Our sophisticated weaponry and tall talk
enables us to take on and defeat third and fourth rate military powers.

Actually, we're much better at killing the bad guys than they are at killing
us. If we were in a war for survival (instead of fighting to help preserve
someone elses's freedom halfway around the World), we'd win hands down.

In our "Quickie fast-food" world, the American public has grown unaccustomed
to waiting for anything. The longer a conflict drags on, the quicker we
lose patience and leave.

You say things like "we got our buts handed to us in Vietnam", yet 1 million
Vietcong died compared to our 50,000. If there was any butt-kicking going
on, it was directed against the side that lost 20 times more men.