OK, my Limey friend. I'll agree that we (America WW-2) had some sub-standard Generals, if you compare them to Patton (which is a impossible task.) Even Patton cost the war effort when he send a unit to rescue his son-in-law from a German POW stalag-- not as big a FUBAR as Monty's "Market-Garden" Airborne/Ground Troop plan, where the British patently ignored the Dutch underground's "spot on" reports of a massive German PanzerKorp force awaiting the Allied Troops- disaster, big time. And I'll give you Clark & Ike being complacent about the Kraut last-ditch effort that lead to the Battle of the Bulge (Which Patton and Col. Koch predicted)and how that FUBAR lead to greater loss of Allied lives.
But the fact remains that W/O America's involvement in WW11- thanks mainly to the ignorance of American intelligence of the pending attack by Japan at Pearl Harbor, you wankers would be ordering (in German, Danke) sauerkraut und weinerschnitzel at the Savoy Grille, instead of steak and kidney pie.
FWIWIP- my main reason for distrust of the Brits lies in my Green Irish Catholic roots and all the shafting of the Irish by your Countrymen, going back to the Potato Famine and in infamous Lord Boycott and Lord Parnell as well.
I will agree that LBJ's "snookering" the American people into escalating the Aug 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident into a bloodbath that put over 53,000 American names on a long black wall in Washington D.C.-- He should have seen in recent history, albiet in a smaller scenario, the Bay of Pigs Fubar, and learned what JFK learned the hard way-- and you Limeys must now realize re: The IRA and Belfast- your adversary always has the home court advantage-just as we know that wars of attrition lead to a hige butcher's bill afterwards: Pickett's charge in 1963 at Gettysburg, Gen. Haig's loss of 60,000 men at the first battle of the Somme. RWTF
An amateur ,in every sense of the word, military historian and a plastic paddy to boot. What an embarrassment. Ireland is moving on and leaving you and your fake bitterness behind.
My grandfather served 1914 - 1917 Machine Gun Corps honourably discharged then died in 1941 on active service aged 57 ,his son served in the Eighth Army North Africa then Italy both would have knocked you spark out and my Irish grandmother wouldnt have given you the time of day.
What has any of your grandstanding to do with the longevity of side by side game guns ? Are we meant to feel sorry for you?
I notice you stated in another thread that you prefer the Latin motto of the Royal Marines then quoted it as Who Dares Wins ,a lack of consistency there RWTF especially when the SAS whose motto is Who Dares Wins had many victories in the six counties against the IRA . The Loughall ambush springs to mind and its been in the news recently you may have noticed. The Royal Marines SBS were also successful in the six counties. I think you may be a bit confused over where your loyalties ,if you have any, lie
