Any "right minded" individual who has not seen the movie Patton must watch it before having an opinion on future military strategy. Generals like Patton win battles. Of all our commanding officers in the Canadian Armed Forces, who is the most like a modern day Patton? We need one of those. Also to Tory strategists, pundits, MPs alike I ask that you remember how Patton overwhelmed Rommel despite the Krauts having hardened troops and better hardware. Patton read Rommel's published literature. By doing so he figured out how to lure him into the "hammer and anvil."
The parallels with Ignatieff are clear. An academic who reaches to say superfluous things to get noticed in the academic community is going to write a whole bunch of material that is either asinine, absurd, foolhardy, or flatly incorrect. Ignatieff has already penned the seeds of his political demise. I don’t want people to spend any money on his books. Find what is available online; maybe organize public readings of his material. Or one conservative buy a book and pass it on to another conservative. Iggy makes money when people buy his books. Let’s not facilitate this. Stephen Harper is a "Parliamentary Patton", but we need that sort as much or more in the theatre of war than we do in the legislature.
Again back to Patton, at the decisive moment when Patton was crushing Rommel's main force, Patton screams:
"Rommel you magnificent bastard!, I READ YOUR BOOK!!!"
Watch the movie.
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