In addition to saying the Revolution was unnecessary, Jimmy Carter, the eminent historian and grammarian, also says that “more than any other war up until recently, [the Revolution] has been the most bloody war we’ve fought.” Hmm. I guess the Civil War and WWII weren’t wars for this idiot. To paraphrase Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter provides a new and surprising answer every day to the question: “how stupid can this man really be?”
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Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior national security fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute , editing its journal Orbis from 2008 to 2020. A Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Vietnam War, he was a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College from 1987 to 2015. He is the author of US Civil–Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain.
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