To: reagandemo; stainlessbanner
Sherman was forgiving....as was Grant more or less...and Lincoln too compared to the Jacobin Radical Republicans
but the behavior they allowed in the war was debatable regardless of their reasoning
were we to do that to our common foes today, the media and most politicians would howl and we would be scorned by history as pillagers
28 posted on
02/27/2006 8:07:14 AM PST by
wardaddy
("hillbilly car wash owner outta control")
To: wardaddy
"but the behavior they allowed in the war was debatable regardless of their reasoning"
I disagree. What Sherman and grant did was to bring the level of the war up to the point where it would break the Southerners will to fight and limit the loss of union lives. What Truman did to the Japanese was to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to achieve the same goal. Yes some people detest what Truman did but I would argue it was the right decision.
35 posted on
02/27/2006 8:30:39 AM PST by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: wardaddy
were we to do that to our common foes today, the media and most politicians would howl and we would be scorned by history Makes Gitmo look like the Annual Whitehouse Easter Egg Roll.
43 posted on
02/27/2006 10:42:58 AM PST by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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