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To: alexander_busek
....perhaps he was, indeed, the greatest general!

I doubt it. Compared to General Washington, General Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan. Nah...Lee was a great military leader but he paled in comparison to other military strategists who were brilliant standouts that conquered nations.
32 posted on 09/09/2022 1:13:36 AM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: know.your.why
alex: ....perhaps he was, indeed, the greatest general!

know.your.why: I doubt it. Compared to General Washington, General Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan. Nah...Lee was a great military leader but he paled in comparison to other military strategists who were brilliant standouts that conquered nations.

You see: Here we are, calmly and respectfully discussing Lee's generalship - without having to resort to "name-calling" (i.e., using epithets such as "Neo-Confederate"). It's called "having a difference of opinion" and "engaging in polite discourse."

You originally wrote:

Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. Alabama is full of em. Guy I worked with calls General Robert E. Lee the greatest general that ever lived.

Yours was an apparent attempt to paint anyone who speaks favorably of Southern military tactics as a "Neo-Confederate." At least, that is the implication.

By that same defective logic, one could call anyone who marvelled at the engineering of the Me 262 or the battlefield accomplishments of, say, Rommel a "neo-Nazi."

Regards,

38 posted on 09/09/2022 2:45:29 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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