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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Somehow I think if Pershing were around today, he would be pursuing the kind of strategy we are pursuing in Afghanistan, and the kind of people invoking him in this clipping would be denouncing him as soft. Then they'd search for someone else to invoke.
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I believe the Pershing that existed then would be stunned by the thinking of today. I believe he'd be more likely to take a good look at the present, resign his commision and buy a farm as far way away from anyone as he could. Unless he had access to a number of his own past officers and staff, then he might stick around to see what could be done.