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Two: what on earth is the British strategy? Why do the redcoats seem to be spending so much time just hanging around in New York or Philadelphia? Valley Forge is literally twenty miles from Philly. Okay, I realize, it’s winter. But come on, it’s ''twenty miles''. General Washington is starving in the snow out there. His troops are deserting by the score. And Lord Howe can’t send a couple of guys with muskets to go bring him in? Heck, it sounds like a well-phrased dinner invitation would probably have done the trick.
Three: if the Stamp Act was such an intolerable abuse, how did the British Empire have all these other colonies — Canada, Australia, yadda yadda — where everyone was so meek? Surely we can understand the idea that taxation without representation was the first step toward tyranny. So where is the tyranny? Where are Her Majesty’s concentration camps? Okay, there was the Boer War, I guess. But more generally, why is the history of America so different from that of the other colonies?
Four: why does no one outside America seem to resent these unfortunate events at all? I mean, the Revolution was a war. [[War Is Hell|People got pretty violent on both sides.]] In some parts of the world, when people lose a war, they don’t feel that it was just God’s will. They feel that God would be much more satisfied [[Cycle of Revenge|if there was some payback]]. And they tend to [[Feuding Families|transmit this belief to their offspring]]. In the American unpleasantness, a lot of people — loyalists — got kicked out of their homes. They had to leave with only a small travel bag. When this sort of thing happens in the Middle East, [[Never Live It Down|it’s remembered for the life of the known universe]].
|''An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives'' by '''Mencius Moldbug''', Chapter 5.}}
{{quote|"''[[World War II|Killing Japanese]] didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.''"|'''Curtis LeMay'''}}
{{quote|"''It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?''"|Meme of unknown providence}}
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