That it did.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Posted on 01/04/2009 2:29:32 PM PST by NCjim
Hah! Tell that to my ancestors who lost everything.
Sherman’s march was ugly, but it did the job. Same thing with the Battle of Berlin. Ultimately, the only way to win a war is to kill and break the enemy. Sadly, the people running our State Dept and the UN have (apparently) never really studied war—or if they, it was from the wrong people.
My ancestors got all your ancestors stuff.
So just what does Sharia Law have to say about “disproportionate responses”?
If the North had not passed laws aimed at preventing the South from selling cotton to Europe, so the cotton could be uses in northern mills ...
Sounds like “American Thinker” sees the Union as a “roach motel” or street gang; i.e., once in, never out. The esteemed economist Walter Williams disagrees strongly with this outlook.
Early on, the war was fought with rather genteel manners by the officers. In the early months, Union armies paid (or gave receipts) for supplies taken from land owners. As it ground on, it became total warfare.
I love reading the old diaries.
The problem is Liberals want to see Hamas win. Their notion of nirvana is the Middle East without a viable Israel and Jews.
Sherman belonged in a sanitorium. While Washington may have thought Union forces respected the sanctity of private homes, anyone whose families descend from those who lived through it will tell you otherwise.
The "international community" is part of that wide swath of humanity that is convinced that something intelligent issues forth each time their lips flap.
Hoo boy, here we go. Time to make some popcorn...
That it did.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
This generation cannot judge that generation. What we think is right was a different right to them ... the South will always believe that the North invaded them regardless ... it’s about time we put all this to rest ....
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Which laws were those? There were no laws against or taxes on exports until after the South initiated war. Then the Union started a blockade. Anyway, the Confederacy put an embargo on sales of cotton, on the highly mistaken theory that the resulting cotton famine would force European powers to intervene.
Bwahahaha! That is the Northern version of history, I suppose. The author ought to read Union correspondence in the Official Records.
Yep. That;s what Hitler said about Auschwitz, Stalin said about Ukraine, Pol Pot said about Cambodia, and Mao said about the Great Leap Forward.
You mean as the Union discovered it couldn't win against the Confederate army.
“War is cruelty. There is no use in trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
William T. Sherman
Out of our civil war there are two generals (one Northern the other Southern) that I admire greatly because they both believed in Total War. General William T. Sherman, USA and General Thomas J. Jackson, CSA.
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