War Horses Fade Into History While Bayonets Still Linger
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It may say something about the state of U.S. politics today that the high point of a presidential debate about the foreign policy challenges America faces in the 21st Century was a comment about horses and bayonets.
The subject lit up Twitter, inspiring a peak of 105,767 posts per minute during the 90-minute debate on Oct. 22.