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jlf1961 -> RE: Trump's Folly the Border Wall (2/4/2017 6:39:31 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
Hadrian's wall is another that proved less than successful: for most of the tail end of the Roman occupation it served more as a source of dressed stone for Scottish buildings than as a barrier to prevent mobility.
That was only because the Scots were too lazy to quarry their own stone, or maybe smart enough to let the Romans do it for them.
Of course, from what I have seen of the wall as it is now, added to the written accounts, it begs the question:
Did they really think it would work?
I mean seriously.
Scots (and Welsh for that matter) seem to have a major issue on understanding when they are supposed to lose a battle or be stopped by some obstacle.
Scots see a wall, and instead of thinking "That is supposed to keep us out" have the misguided notion that it is something they are supposed to climb, go through or go under (and it is usually a combination of all three.)
I mean, just look at Scot military units.
They go into battle with some guy or groups of men out front playing bag pipes with the enemy shooting at them. I mean how is a guy supposed to aim a rifle or in past eras, draw a sword while playing bag pipes?
Even when the British army issued regulations forbidding Pipers in combat, that Lord Lovett still had one. The guy played the pipes wading through the water on D Day, played em under fire all the way to relieve the British glider troops at a couple of bridges.
And he thought nothing of the fact that he was being shot at the entire time.
This is a prime example of the failure of the Scot warrior to understand the subtle nuances of combat and defense.
Which may be why, according to some historians, Scots units were, at least in some eras of British history, nothing more than cannon fodder troops.
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