On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:36:16 +0100, Morten Reistad <fi...@last.name> wrote:
>The Germans could offer significant resistance until January of >1945. Go read what the Ardenner offensive did to Eisenhower's >broad front. Now imagine what it would do to Patton's forces, >or Monty's for that matter if they had indeed done such a spearhead. I'm not suggesting one way is better than the other. My objection is to the following statement in this thread: >And we do know that Eisenhower was correct "enough". And that's what >really counts. Yeah, the Nazis didn't win. But that is insufficient reason to assume our choice was optimal. Same thing with Tom Watson Jr's management styles, or IBMs mainframe strategy or my career choices. "Good enough" isn't an optimal strategy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
