free dixie,sw
Wait until he goes into Count Vigo mode:
"Atop a mountain of skulls, I ruled from a throne of blood!!!"
Made a good movie line, really dramatic and all, but it's a shame that anyone would actually advocate that for his own countrymen, over political differences. (They want to rule themselves, as opposed to letting me rule them from a throne of blood, etc. etc.)
Guys like that justify the secessionists morally by the words out of their own mouths, that enliven and reanimate the dry historical vignettes of Sherman burning and salting Georgia.
Even my own dad, an Indiana Hoosier and Lincoln admirer from birth (my great-grandfather -- my dad's maternal grandfather -- actually saw Lincoln on his bier on his way home to Springfield), was dismayed by the idea that American troops would salt the earth of an American state.
He said you could see the path the army took on aerial photographs from the 1930's and 40's -- the salting had damaged the foliage enough that it still showed. (Wonder what Landsat/SPOT imagery would show today?)
You are right to wonder at the kind of mind that did that.
The losers don't get to make those claims, because by their surrender, they acknowledge the errors in their way.