The series seems very balanced. Patrick Cleburne is portrayed much more favourably than Sherman, but Sherman actually had some good points
Generally, all politicians should be hanged.
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
- Aesop
And I’ve always felt this quote from Chesterton’s contemporary, Hillaire Belloc, was ever timely:
“We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”
>>Hieronymus wrote: “The series seems very balanced. Patrick Cleburne is portrayed much more favourably than Sherman, but Sherman actually had some good points.”
I have been searching for almost 20 years, and have not found a single good point that can be attributed to Sherman. What good points do you attribute to him?
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>>Hieronymus wrote: “Generally, all politicians should be hanged.”
No. Only the war criminals, like Lincoln and Obama.
Mr. Kalamata