Anthony Scaramucci Quotes
You know what this nation is? It's a disruptive start-up. It was a group of rich guys that got together and said, 'You know what? We're going to break away from the other countries and start our own country.'
Scaramucci, Anthony. Interview by Chris Cuomo. New Day, CNN, 27 July 2017.
This was written more than a year before the “blows” began. It took time to ship the men and supplies to America and the British did not handle that task with much efficiency.
This was a rebellion of the Irish natives of Ulster against the English Protestants land owners and the English settlers. In addition to the desire for liberty as this proclamation formally states, the rebels were mostly Roman Catholics whose religion had been almost destroyed the thought by the English component of the Protestant Reformation. 12 years after this proclamation, he was executed.
A delegation from Sinn Fein, headed by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, had negotiated a treaty of Irish Independence except that it did not cover Northern Ireland where the majority of the people wanted to stay a part of Britain. For 700 years, the Irish had fought for independence, and finally they got it for the vast majority of Ireland and the overwhelming majority of the Catholics of Ireland. The alternative to agreeing to the treaty was to continue the war between the IRA and the British Troops. At the time, the IRA was just about totally beaten and probably could not hold out another month. De Valera, a very shrewd politician, as the leader of Sinn Fein (and the IRA) would normally have headed the Irish Delegation. But he chose not to because he realized that they would never get independence for all 32 counties of Ireland as the British would not leave the Northern Ireland Protestants to their fates against their will. The best Ireland could get was Independence for all of Catholic majority Ireland. And he knew that public opinion would oppose giving up even one county becuse that was what the leaders had told the people for years. So De Valera let his two associates take the popular blame after he denounced the treaty with his famous quotation. Shortly after that, Michael Collins, the brilliant military Commander of the IRA who signed the treaty was assassinated. To many, it was as if De Valera had pulled the trigger. The treaty was ratified by a single vote by the Dail as there was no army left to fight, and the angry Irish electorate voted for De Valera as Ireland’s first President. The politician won; the patriot died.
The King in his full dress military uniform had raced be carriage with his family to the Parliament building. The Germans had moved troops into Belgium and wanted that country to do nothing while they moved troops to attack France. The emotional question was answered with a shouted unanimous Oui! (Yes!). This meant that the small Belgian army would take on the huge and better equipped German Army and resist the invasion. They hoped for the assistance and intervention of England according to existing diplomatic agreements but they could not be sure. They did get the support of England and France, but later. In the meanwhile, the Germans used the Belgian defense of their land as an excuse for retribution and committing terrible war crimes and atrocities against Belgian military and civilian personnel.
Southern intellectuals at the beginning of the Civil War were convinced of their invincibility. They misjudged both the effect of the industrial and technological might and the moral intensity of the North.
Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier who served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017.
