After all, those were war years and he did look like Moses, and perhaps he sounded like him. He personally arranged twelve separate civil wars among the Indians (the removal of the unfit). He was part of a weird plot by men of both the North and South to extinguish the Indians whoever should win the war (devotion to the ideal of national growth ). He forged names to treaties (astute frontier politics). Enemy Lines I&II by Allston plus Traitor by Stover (three bangers in a row back when the NJO was being published), X-Wing: Mercy Kill, Darth Plagueis, and The Lando Calrissian Adventures (my guilty pleasures). He effected assassinations (removal of semi-military obstructions). He lied like a trooper (he was a trooper). He ordered massacres of women and children (exemplary punitive operations). He stole (diverted) Indian funds and used them to bribe doubtful Indian leaders. These are the two sides of the same handful of coins. But if you like the man and the type, then he was impressive, untrammeled, a man of the right place and moment, flexible or sophisticated, and firm. If you dislike the man and the type, then he was pompous, empty, provincial and temporal, dishonest, and murderous. Who could distrust that big man with the great beard and flowing hair and godly glance? Albert Pike looked like Michelangelo's Moses in contrived frontier costume. To challenge his rank is to be overwhelmed by a torrent of abuse, and we challenge him completely. Albert Pike has been elevated to this sacrosanct company, though of course to a minor rank. There are men better than these who are not sacrosanct, who may be challenged freely. In America, Penn and Franklin, Jefferson and Jackson and Lee. Louis and Richard and Tancred, Erasmus and Bacon, Galileo and Newton, Voltaire and Rousseau, Harvey and Darwin, Nelson and Wellington. These are such men as Socrates and Plato, Pericles and Alexander, Caesar and Augustus, Marcus Aurelius and Trajan, Martel and Charlemagne, Edward the Confessor and William of Falaise, St. As the Ukraine War continues well into its second year with no end yet in sight, the topic of how wars end continues to be one of the most important issues i. ![]() We stock over eight million comics and books in our three Denver. “There are certain men who are sacrosanct in history you touch on the truth of them at your peril. IRON MAN: ARMOR WARS TPB (2006 Series) 1 Near Mint in Graphic Novels & TPBs.
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