[jeffersondem]

“Did Sherman exterminate anyone? His idea was to destroy the resources (to the extent that he could) that the other side used to carry on the war. That's not what WWII’s exterminationist regimes were doing — they went much further.”

Now you are getting into the finer points of extermination - bad extermination, good extermination, and common-sense extermination.

Any conversation about extermination must include a look at the intent of the people advocating it. Sherman - from his writings - was rather clear what he meant.

I don't have the quotes at my finder tips but if you deny Sherman advocated extermination of his enemies I may have to do a search.

[Reily]

Sherman was a WWII strategic bombing campaign on foot & horseback. If he’s a war criminal so is the WWII 8th Air Force.

[x]

The Sherman who lived in Louisiana before the war? He fought a hard war, a destructive war, but didn’t want to exterminate his enemies.

And you’ve opened up a massive can of worms concerning our conduct in WWII, Vietnam, and other wars. Do you want to get into that?