Posted on 10/01/2016 9:31:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Bump….
Maybe if they had acted like him, we wouldn't still be fighting that friggin' war, and losing more ground, more blood, and more treasure each and every day. Oh yeah, and tearing our society apart in the process.
Maybe if we'd done a Sherman on the entire Middle East, those ragheaded goat humpers would be pi**ing their dirty night shirts every time they heard a 737 fly overhead, thinking it might be another bombing sortie come to lay waste to what remains of their pi**ant villages.
I say that as a Southerner, whose ancestors saw firsthand what Sherman did.
Immoral? Yes...but it worked. When it comes to war, what's more immoral...to lay waste to everything in sight and get your enemy to surrender unconditionally, or to stretch out the slow bleed of blood and treasure, and keep losing ground? Perpetual war is what's immoral. This thing should've been over and done with in six months.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
It is called ‘Total War’.
How anyone can believe we can go in and have a small area war?
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Weather forecast for Hiroshima, 6 August 1945.
Very hot, 10,000 degrees in the shade.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
Ok another yahoo comparing the South 1865 to Japan in 1945. No comparison. Idiot.
I never knew so many so called conservative race baiter south haters existed till I joined her 16 years ago
Drunk in MLK
Beck and Levin and Hannity et al
Like I said. Most humans struggle with the question.
Let me further ask what, if any, is the distinction between mercy without hope and mercy with hope?
Spooooooooons Butler. Folks in New Orleans did not like him a bit.
Bragg was so disliked that (anecdotally anyway) during the Mexican War, someone put a lit cannonball under his bunk. It went off, but, Bragg survived.
Bragg’s problem was he was a great organizer, but, a terrible field commander. He should have been moved to Richmond much earlier than he was.
The Confederate Army of Tennessee never got the organization that the Army of Northern Virginia had.
At ANV’s best it was organized into three corps of three divisions each with each division having between 4-5 brigades.
The Army of Tennessee at its biggest battles had a much more confused organization. It could have 5-6 corps, some with one division, some with four. The problem stemmed partly from armies coming together for a big battle. For example at Chickamauga you had Polk bringing his army up from Mississippi serving as a corps under Bragg and you had Longstreet bringing two divisions from Virginia serving as a corps under Bragg. It was a mess of command.
Maybe it goes back to Fort Henry and Donaldson where the original southern western army was captured leaving a big void to be quickly killed in.
Both had examples of Total War.
Pls make an attempt to stay with the subject at hand.
You’ll have to excuse cva - he has no social skills.
Surprising for one that claims to be out of Central Virginia?
In Chicago and other large cities, many believe it is ‘cool and ‘assertive’ to make a scene.
I lived in Texas for a few years and down there, their mama taught them proper manors.
And the father showed them how to ‘take it outside’, if need be.
So sad, cva must be an orphan, no mama, and no father to teach him(?) proper manors.
My lack of manors are only eclipsed by your total misunderstanding and ignorance of US history.
Not the South so much as it is whites in general and the police.
The reparations crowd doesn't discriminate by region much.
I fully expect Obama to grow an afro and join them once he's out of office.
With you being so knowledgeable, and all.
Please show the correct comparison between Gen Sherman and the bombing of Hiroshima, from the viewpoint of ‘total war’.
Pls keep it simple, for I’m simply an old grunt.
If "preserving" the Union was really a goal of the USA then then Lincoln and the North demonstrated an odd method of preservation.
That would be a hoot!
The Mack Truck history was a fun read! Who knew?
Be that as it may.
The subject was ‘total war’,vis-à-vis the US Civil War and the bombing of Hiroshima.
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