Five Years--Iraq and the Seminole

Nobody Flashes Anymore:

Consider this Quote--"Sixteen millions of Anglo-Saxons unable to subdue, in five years, by force and by fraud, by secret treachery and by open war, sixteen hundred savage warriors!"

This was a quote by John Quincy Adams, around 1838, in a series of speeches he gave in the House. JQA was not only the only soul fighting slavery in the House, but was appalled on how the slave owning Southerners were treating the Indians. Basically, they wanted their lands because they were depleting their own "cotton" farms, and wanted the southern lands....the Seminoles put up a great fight.

And John Quincy fought every day for the horror to stop...of course he was in the minority.

Adams believed this war, with Jackson in the White House, "was being managed with "imbecility."

JQA opposed a host of bills to escalate the war by sending additional regular troops and expanding the militia.

Funny isn't it? John Quincy thought it ridiculous that after five years they could not defeat the Indians. And then...Jackson wanted MORE money?

Sound familiar?

I got this out of Mr. Adams's Last Crusade, by Joseph Wheelan, an excellent book, about the timeless fighter.

Oh, yeah---the Seminoles finally lost, but they were surrounded by water, and there was only so many of them. The middle East, on the other hand, has enough men to fight, as McCain would say, another hundred years....

I wonder what John Quincy would say today? I wonder....