Posted on 02/17/2017 4:07:25 AM PST by Bull Snipe
Uncle Billy
And all these years later if we could just get Georgia to defeat South Carolina and Tennessee in SEC football.
WAR is H..E double toothpicks!
Too bad California doesn’t store cotton in the streets of LA, SF, Oakland, Sacramento....
Fort Sumter attack was NOT a good idea.
Karma can sometimes be painful.
“Fort Sumter attack was NOT a good idea.”
The Fort Sumter incident was “blamed” as the cause for war, but in fact Lincoln was planning to militarily “bring back” the seceded states regardless. Lincoln would have initiated military action even if Sumter had not been bombarded. Lincoln wanted the Southern revenues above all else.
Good post
SCORCHED EARTH is WAR THE WAY IT SHOULD BE FOUGHT
HIROSHIMA
DRESDEN
SHERMAN’S MARCH
these are the tactics that need be applied in the middle east
WAR OVER IN A WEEK OR TWO without USA troops sent to be slaughtered with
PC rules of engagement costing lives...
hearts and minds failed in VN and was a libtarrd foolish idea
VIOLENCE SOLVES PROBLEMS....
And Sherman is still burning in Hell. :-)
Don’t disagree. Here are two quotes by General Sherman, appropriate to the issue. “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.” The second, “This war differs from all other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor feel the hard hand of war.” One has to admire a man that delivers on his word.
Firing on a Federal Fort, manned by Federal soldiers and issuing letters of Marque, authorizing piracy against ships flying the flag of the United States, rises above the level of an incident. These are conscientious acts of war. What Lincoln may have been planning is immaterial. Jefferson Davis made the decision to go to war against the United States.
**SHERMAN’S MARCH**
Sherman also called for the total annihilation of men, women, and children of certain Plains Indian tribes not long after.
Real nice guy.
Kind of like a pre-emptive strike, eh?
Possibly. The end results were similar to the pre-emptive strike by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. Four years later both the Confederacy and Japan were reduce to smoldering ruins. American Officers ruled, American soldiers policed the streets, controlled the economies, dictated the political structure. When one choses to make war on the United States, we have the ability to give them a belly full of war. Yep, pre-emptive strikes are a very smart course of action.
Supposedly General Phil Sheridan said “the only good Indian he ever saw was dead.”
Him and what army?
The country wouldn't have backed him if he tried to start a war after saying he wouldn't.
Supposedly. Allegedly.
Yada yada yada...and so is jeff davis.
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