250 and Hauling |
The U.S. is just getting started.
Donald Trump can look forward to a retirement playing professional sports. The latest count on his primary endorsements has the president batting a thousand:
Just for a reasonable comparison, the winners of the last three major sports championships were nowhere close to the president’s level of primary success:
2025 World Series: LA Dodgers were 93-69
2025 NBA Championship: Oklahoma City Thunder were 68-14
2026 Super Bowl: Seattle Seahawks were 14-3
It’s amazing how much one can lose and still win. And that is much of the story of the United States as she approaches her 250th birthday. I still remember Gerald Ford ringing a Bicentennial Bell in 1976. I couldn’t tell which looked more inanimate: Ford or the bell. Virtually every success story includes times of failure and doubt. I am in the middle of Victor Davis Hanson’s "The Savior Generals," and it doesn’t matter if it was Matthew Ridgway in Korea, David Petraeus in Iraq, or even William Tecumseh Sherman slashing his way through Georgia; each had losses of land and soldiers. Each succeeded in the task given him because the overall task was far bigger than one battle or piece of land. Ridgway knew that he would lose Seoul, but was not worried because he knew that the Chinese were overextending their supply lines. In four months, he reversed the Chinese mauling of American forces and settled near the 38th Parallel and did not again make MacArthur’s move for all of Korea. How many rockets blew up before Elon Musk got one to land perfectly?
America’s detractors, both internal and external, like to point out the country’s weaknesses or failures as proof of her lack of success. To date, 13 servicemen have died in the Iran War. And while each one is precious to family and country, relatively low losses on such a massive scale of attack are extraordinary. The same with airframe losses compared to the number of sorties.........