Is Trump So Bad?

Now again, as you read this post, don’t for one second think that I’m trying to find some backdoor way to promote Donald Trump. To the contrary, I haven’t had as much fun watching a President take it up the ass since Dick Nixon resigned back in 1974.

That being said (for the umpteenth time) I have just finished reading the third and final volume of Rock Atkinson’s history of the World War II European campaign, The Guns of Last Light, which covers the year from the D-Day landing until the war against Germany came to an end.

Like the previous two volumes, this book is also based on a combination of information from the Orders of Battle, which were the reports written by every American soldier who commanded any number of troops during an engagement with the enemy, plus a wide sampling of first-hand accounts created by observers on the scene, letters sent home and other primary sources.

The United States military suffered a half million casualties over the eleven months of that campaign, one-third dead and the rest wounded with injuries that would shorten their lives. And many of these deaths and injuries occurred because in either planning or executing the fighting across France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, our commanders just fu*ked things up.

I’m not just talking about the frequent lapses of communication or wrong orders given in the…