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To: #3Fan
"Sherman wasn't present so I don't see what he has to do with it."

Shows how much you know of military organization and responsibility. The commanding officer of any brigade, troop, regiment, etc. is responsible for the conduct of his troops.

"What Sherman said could apply to any general or commander who has had to attack civilian installations to win a war, such as Ike, Truman, Roosevelt, or Doolittle, and that was Sherman's point."

So by your remark I would take it that you excuse the previously mentioned crimes by Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Dung, Pol Pot, Kemal Attaturk, Reinhard Heydrich to name a few. After all - they were trying to win wars also.

Out of touch with reality? If that means having the rule book written in pencil so its easy to justify actions as you go, then perhaps we "neoconfederates" are, or perhaps we held our men to a higher standard. It just proves that you Yankees will stoop to any means, fair or foul, to achieve your ends.

When it comes to moral ethics don't look to the Yankees - they're fresh out of it!

173 posted on 02/28/2004 12:25:29 PM PST by Colt .45 (Cold War, Vietnam Era, Desert Storm Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry!)
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To: Colt .45
Shows how much you know of military organization and responsibility. The commanding officer of any brigade, troop, regiment, etc. is responsible for the conduct of his troops.

So Lee is guilty of war crimes since some Confederate soldiers raped Confederate women?

So by your remark I would take it that you excuse the previously mentioned crimes by Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Dung, Pol Pot, Kemal Attaturk, Reinhard Heydrich to name a few. After all - they were trying to win wars also.

No, they committed war crimes for the sake of committing war crimes, not to win wars. Sherman's point is that it is a judgment call, and he's right. Sherman's actions saved thousands of lives by shortening the war, as did Truman's and Ike's. I place the value of thousands of lives over that of burned buildings in Sherman's case.

Out of touch with reality? If that means having the rule book written in pencil so its easy to justify actions as you go, then perhaps we "neoconfederates" are, or perhaps we held our men to a higher standard. It just proves that you Yankees will stoop to any means, fair or foul, to achieve your ends.

How can a potential nation founded to perpetuate slavery be a high standard? And Confederate soldiers committed atrocities...murder of Union soldiers and rape of their own women...so where's the high standard? If Lee could've destroyed the supply lines to win the war, he would've done so also. His excursions in the North didn't last long enough for him to do so.

When it comes to moral ethics don't look to the Yankees - they're fresh out of it!

That's a laugh coming from a person who think that the side that tried to perpetuate the bondage of an entire people should've won.

176 posted on 02/28/2004 12:41:27 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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