Re: [OT] Invading America

--- Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
wrote:

> Yes and No.
> Look at how they dealt "harshly" with francs-tireurs
> in the contretemps
> in 1870, and in Belgium in WW1.

> More likely, many of the "Minutemen" would have
> expended their ammo on
> unarmed German-Americans rather than duke it out
> with armed invaders.

Uh, massacres stiffen American resolve, not weaken it.

The biggest thing that foreigners fail to comprehend
about Americans is that you mistake natural
peacableness with cowardice.

Santa Anna made that mistake, ordering no quarter to
be given at the Alamo and a prisioner massacre at
Goliad.  All he did was guarantee that the Texans
would fight well.  Also see US reaction to the Malmedy
massacre et al.

John

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