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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Of course like everything else these days there are Monday morning quarterbacks telling us what we coulda, shoulda, woulda.
Fuck them, they weren't there.
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On the contrary, our leadership in World War 2 was so good that it's kind of spooky, both on the military side and on the civilian/political side.
What are the odds that we would get a Halsey AND a Nimitz, a Patton AND a MacArthur AND a Mark Clark AND an Omar Bradley and all the rest?
Leaving aside getting both FDR and Truman back-to-back.