"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Almost as well as Caesar!

"Butch Davis" wrote in message
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Napoleon? Did pretty well for a while, eh?

Butch
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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).


Neither were major fighting wars against tough, well-trained, well-led
disciplined troops.





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.



This is based on what? Your somewhat hazy knowledge of 20th century
history?

Statistics and math. 500,000 Chinese and 1.1 million North Koreans died
during the Korean War. 54,000 American perished. When is dying at a rate
of 20:1 compared to our side, he better outnumber us 21:1 if he hopes to
have anybody standing when all is said and done.