American Army Quotes
The French and English, with larger numbers and more experienced troops and officers, wanted the American units to come under the command or their officers and be integrated into the allied army. However Wilson established the tradition that American troops fighting abroad most always fight as an American Army under American Command. Although resented then and into the 21st century by America’s allies who are expected to fight under American command, it is a tradition that no American major politician has seriously challenged since then.
The American Army had just liberated Bellau Wood, but had lost almost 8,000 men.
This quotation shows the naivety of the Islamic terrorists about America. They assumed that because the Federal Government did not send help to New Orleans and other communities hit by the hurricane, it was because there was a shortage of military personnel to send and they took credit for tying down all the troops. They just could not accept the possibility that some American administrations were totally incompetent and were not be prepared or that an American President could appoint someone with no real qualification. Ironically, they would believe that of the Arab countries in the Middle East, but not the vaunted USA. The terrible response to Katrina had nothing to do with the shortage of troops and civilian first line responders. There were more than enough. They just were never prepared and never deployed on time.
In the 1930s, led by the conservative Republicans, there was an isolationist subset of our population and the Congress that blocked all efforts to increase defense spending and readiness. The attitude towards the military was terrible. After WWII, the Republicans, realizing the weakness of their earlier political philosophy, flip flopped and went to the other extreme becoming hyper pro-military with little oversight of the needs.
