Monday, February 22, 2010

Obama's Stalingrad

One of my favorite weblogs is Power Line; in this post, John Hinderaker refers to the necromancy of the Democratic Party with their foolishness trying to pass health care legislation that the people clearly don't want:
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025658.php

"Now the Democrats are back on health care, sort of like Napoleon returning to Waterloo."

With all due respect to John, a much better historical analogy is Hitler's assault on Stalingrad, where, to the detriment and eventual defeat of his army, he focused on capturing the city bearing Stalin's name, instead of merely bypassing it in the Blitzkrieg tradition. Month after month, Hitler poured precious divisions into the meatgrinder of the city, which Stalin was just as determined to defend--while preparing to counterattack.

Not a pretty sight in 1942, and not pretty in 2010.