[Aurelius]

"Do you have another answer?"

Yes I do.

"A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever."
Jefferson Davis

"Governor, if I had foreseen the use these people desired to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox, no, sir, not by me. Had I seen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
Robert E. Lee
— as told to Texas ex-governor F. W. Stockdale

"I would have never surrendered the army if I had known how the South would have been treated."
"Well, General, you have only to blow the bugle."
"It is too late now."
— exchange between Lee and Colonel T. M. R. Talcott Robert E. Lee

[conservativemusician]

Why am I not surprised.

Unsettled forever? So, all violent conflict should be maintained in perpetuity? I guess the British, Mexicans, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Taliban, and Saddam should all feel the same way. Man, we got an awful lot wars to continue fighting.

Lee supposedly said " if I had foreseen " , "if I had known ". Alot of ifs do not change the fact that he SURRENDERED, thereby ENDING the war.


Nice try, though.