On Mar 2, 6:59*pm, "Paul G." wrote:
On Mar 2, 5:09*pm, "K. Gringioni" wrote:





On Mar 2, 3:09*pm, "Paul G." wrote:

On Mar 2, 1:25*pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote:

Would it actually be worse than prolonging things as we are now, looking
for the bottom but not knowing what the bottom looks like? Wanting so
badly to start "recovering" but because we keep throwing band-aids out
there, that recovery from the bottom is further off?

In military terms, you can have an orderly retreat... or a rout.
Examples: Chosin Reservoir and Stalingrad, respectively. *The former
is bad, but the latter is far, far worse.

Dumbass -

Nice analogies.

Did you ever read "Stalingrad: the Fateful Siege" by Beevor? Pretty
goddamm epically awful conflict.

No, but I saw the movie... and the History Channel programs.



Dumbass -


Those programs were ok, but the book has a lot of first person
accounts. It's heartbreaking. So much suffering. The statistcs alone
on the casualtes (minus the anecdotal drama) are mind blowing.

Luckily for us, our guy whom you mention never managed to get into a
mess of that magntude. Not for a lack of trying.


thanks,

K. Gringioni.