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Neither did these parents:
In the 1760s, Massachusetts commissioners invited some local Indians to send a dozen of their children to attend free at Harvard. The Indians replied that they had sent some of their young braves to study there years earlier, but on their return, the boys proved absolutely “good for nothing, being neither acquainted with the true methods for killing deer, catching a beaver, or surprising an enemy.”
The Indians offered instead to educate a dozen or so white children in the ways of the Indians and “make men of them.” To my knowledge there were no takers.
Is it possible the Indians could see that men were vanishing from Harvard as early as the 1760s?
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
