Fascinating. Erick Erickson: As much as I do personally like Donald Trump, his comment about Megyn Kelly on CNN is a bridge too far for me.

A bridge too far: good intentions just tried too hard and it didn’t quite work.

Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 [Allied troops] being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and being dropped as much as 64 miles behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. “We’re going to lay a carpet, as it were, of airborne troops” over which armored divisions of XXX Corps can pass and confidently suggests that “We shall seize the bridges - it’s all a question of bridges - with thunderclap surprise, and hold them until they can be secured”.

After securing Nijmegen Bridge, XXX Corps waits several hours for its infantry to secure the town. The Germans, now on full alert, intercept and gun down numerous Poles during their drop; only a handful survive to reinforce the British. After days of house-to-house fighting at Arnhem, pitted against crack SS infantry backed by panzers, the outgunned paratroops are captured or forced to withdraw. Arnhem itself is indiscriminately razed. Although Operation Market Garden is determined by Montgomery and his High Command to be 90% successful, most of those who actually carried it out feel quite differently. Urquhart escapes Arnhem with fewer than a fifth of his original 10 thousand crack troops; those who were too badly injured to flee stay behind and cover the withdraw, then give themselves up. Urquhart confronts Browning about his personal sentiments regarding the operation; did it go as well as Montgomery estimates? Browning’s reply (and the film’s last line of dialogue, not counting the Allied prisoners who sing Abide With Me en route to the German POW camp) contradicts his earlier optimism for Market Garden: “Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.”