Re: Hillbilly Posts More Lies and Propaganda

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:18:16 -1000, "Jerry Okamura"
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US Military in Iraq Reports Success Against Terrorists
By Alex Villareal
Washington
28 September 2007
you're a lying bitch just like the rest of that hillbilly scum aren't you

the war is LOST

The war is only LOST, when you give up.

Jerry, I'm sure you've heard the expression "Pyrrhic Victory". Here is
the origin of the term.

"A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor.
The phrase is an allusion to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army
suffered irreplaceable casualties when he defeated the Romans during
the Pyrrhic War at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC. After the
latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:
? The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one
that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would
utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he
brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal
commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found
the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a
fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was
quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating
in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger
gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war. [1] ?

In both of Pyrrhus's victories, the Romans lost more men than Pyrrhus
did. However, the Romans had a much larger supply of men from which to
draw soldiers, so their losses did less damage to their war effort
than Pyrrhus's losses did to his."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

I wouldn't claim there is an exact parallel to what we are doing in
Iraq, but there do seem to be some similarities.

Since you are dedicated to winning, I'm curious what your
recommendation to the Emperor would have been after the bomb was
dropped on Nagasaki?

Jeff
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