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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
Well as for Beatty at Jutland it was a case of the top of the pile didnt talk to the bottom shoody planning and lousy execution of the act. As per usual the top blamed the bottom when the cowpats flew up top and blamed all bar themselves. Does that sound familiar in this day and age and in what America is going through now?
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Its more than that. Correlli Barnett' s "The Sword Bearers" has a good chapter on Jutland, "Sailor with a Flawed Cutlass." Whatever the failings of the high command, many of the ships were junk.
Also I think it is not only the Iraqi war that is driving down the greenback. It is a lack of faith in American leadership. One can't expect the rest of the world to understand the convoulutions of the American political system, but it does not take much detailed knowledge to realize that the leader of the country, if left to himself, could not run a hot dog stand. The strong performance of the loonie is due more to the fact that Canada probably has more oil than the middle east ... not easy to get at but it's there, and at today's prices it is profitable to extract it. And the strength of European economies is due more to their innovation and expertise and less to the American military screw ups.
And I don't think Barb's ideas are all that extreme. If they were GWB would not be President. The scary thing about the majority of the American voting public is that they think like Barb. But that is democracy and the First Ammendment. Ironic that the strengths of America are also, in a sense, its greatest weaknesses.