Comment by nilamo
15 hours ago
That's not unique to their culture. Remember The Alamo? That was 190 years ago and we still celebrate our defeat.
15 hours ago
That's not unique to their culture. Remember The Alamo? That was 190 years ago and we still celebrate our defeat.
We don't celebrate our defeat. We celebrate the men, the courage, the greater meaning.
The greater meaning of... holding a position over a period of time that seems unreasonable against a far superior force? Exactly like the GP described for Hussein? It certainly sounds like we're celebrating the same things, unless I misunderstood your point...
exactly, defeat.
The greater meaning of a revolution that was fought to preserve slavery.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/how-leaders-texas-r...
When we remember history, what we remember tends to be white-washed.
The Mexican government and especially Santa Anna were not even close to saints and were not primarily fighting the Texans for reasons of slavery. The Mexican empire carved out slavery as being explicitly allowed in the Mexican state that become known as Texas.
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