another richard prebble opinion in todays wairarapa times age...

 It is truly wearisome to read the unending diatribes against the government daily in the local sausagewrapper two minute silence viz the wairarapa times age.

soper. duplicity alien, hooton et al and richard prebble ex act party hack.

the TA is still a vaguely useful newspaper in the way newspapers have always been useful.

obits, jobs, whats on at the flicks and what went bang in the ukraine last week plus local stock stales (sheep and cattle) and other biznews.

however the whole rag is tainted by the abovementioned continual attacks on the government.

some are purportedly scholarly analysis of a situation while others are collections and lists of so called cultural and economic  crimes with a conclusion attached dunning the government. all in all it is ugly and unnecessary.

not to mention verging on the ideologically depraved.

prebble gets a quarter of the editorial page plus two columns on the op ed. thats generous for an opinion. he begins his attack on the government quoting eisenhower who had supposedly quoted napoleon.

he never attributes this quote so if one wanted to find out exactly where it would be a major mission.

I was reminded in my first year at uni  never to open with anothers words and prebble commits this error.

Napoleon attributed his failure at the end to the luck of his generals but to put it fairly the whole gang was worn out and tired; even though they fought gallantly they were beaten by superior generalship from wellington.

Eisenhower however had fighting generals. a special breed. bradley and patton and montgomery  for example but the fightingest general was one Mathew Ridgway who got things done in all theatres and into the pentagon itself. 

That is why luck has nothing to do with the war being fought right now for the future of the planet. The current government has fighting generals who know what needs to be done and not what will be their  main chance.