[AzaleaCity5691]

So brutalizing old men, robbing widows and raping teenage girls is an appropriate strategy in warfare. Burning the shelters of people who had no food so they would be vagrants, another great strategy of warfare, right?. Just know that the Nazis learned many lessons from Mr. Sherman and know they if he had tried his crap in modern times, he'd be a perfect candidate for a Nuremberg like set up.

[orionblamblam]

> Just know that the Nazis learned many lessons from Mr. Sherman

As did Curtis LeMay.

Although... I suppose you are right. Perhaps a better approach for Sherman would have not been to burn the south to the ground, but to leave it in place... and shackle and enslave those who owned slaves and/or were officers in the military force that fought to maintain the slave status of the blacks. Wouldn't that be nice? All them nice young "southern flowers" stripped, shackled, beaten and forced to work in the fields for the rest of their lives?

That's honorable, doncha know.

[Mr. Silverback]

So brutalizing old men, robbing widows and raping teenage girls is an appropriate strategy in warfare. Burning the shelters of people who had no food so they would be vagrants, another great strategy of warfare, right?

Hey, John Kerry...provide some evidence that Sherman ordered the rape of young girls and the brutalization of old men.