(01-07-2023, 03:10 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(01-07-2023, 02:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: "Get out of here before they outflank and surround us" is very much a strategy.  It was the key strategy of the Contenintal Army from 1776 to 1780.  If the British had done a better job of timing their retreat at Saratoga or at Yorktown, the war might have taken a lot longer.

LOL.  Is there anything you don't have an excuse for?  
If you look at an ariel photo, you notice it's a building and there were multiple points of entry.  They were already surrounded!  What I'm hearing from you now is, these violent insurrectionists were on the verge of overthrowing the government and plunging the country into chaos, yet the Capitol Police (rather than fighting to the last man), meekly retreated, firing only a single shot in defense of the Constitution and our entire way of life.  Sounds like we need better Capitol Police (or Chuck Norris with a bb gun).

P.S.  You have the e & i transposed.  It's spelled Continental, just like the Congress.

ariel photos? They sell a lot of those at Disney...
Anyhow an aerial photo would not show the full situation of the building.  It has multiple tunnels, all of which were put to use that day.  But it might have shown what I'm talking about, which is a single squad of police on one part of the outside of the building retreating before the bad guys go around their backs.

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