Enemy Strength Quotes
Braddock’s hubris caused him to underestimate the Indians as military opponents and shortly after this statement Braddock led his “disciplined troops” into an Indian ambush at Fort Duquesne, and the Indians made an impression that he and the English troops never forgot.
Giuliani had designs on the Republican Presidential nomination. However, his professional experience had lttlle to do with foreign affairs or foreign policy. Also, as a liberal Republican on many of the social issues, he had the problem of appealing to the conservative right wing of the party. So he selected this principle which no one—left or right—really disagrees with. But the right wing generally castigates the left wing for being weak and inviting aggression and other difficulties. The result was that Giuliani could not get any traction with the right wing of his party and gave up his Presidential ambitions for 2012.
Sherman had friends in the South and he saw rebellion and war coming. Most Southerners had a romanticized view of war and were so wrapped up in trying to preserve their economic and cultural way of life that they did not think through the implications of such a war. After and during the war, Sherman was particularly angry with the Southerners who had brought such terrible casualties and destruction upon the land and its people and he was the leader of the March through Georgiam the most effective and humiliating campaign against the South.
