WALSH: President Trump Is Right - Robert E. Lee Was A Great General

https://www.dailywire.com ^ | April 29, 2019 | Matt Walsh

[rexthecat]

Well, yes... Except for Pickett’s frontal assault.

[RAY]

AMEN!

[miss marmelstein]

I might have known. Now the usual freeper nuts will show up - the ones who would have had a much better career than Robert E. Lee if only they had been born at the right time.

[Gay State Conservative]

Great or not Lee is an important figure in US history....as are individuals like Martin Luther King.To take down statues of any such figure is wrong in more ways than I can count.

[Honorary Serb]

Of course Robert E Lee was a great general! They still study his tactics at West Point, among other leading military academies!!!!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

He made many blunders. He was good. Great, not really.

Great Generals win Empires.

[TigersEye]

It has long been an accepted fact by historians that Robert E Lee was an excellent military leader and tactician. It’s about as controversial as saying southern states typically have warmer weather than northern states.

[OttawaFreeper]

"Not a single one of them would pass muster by the standards of today's anachronizing blowhards." "Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. met with the German Ambassador to Great Britain, Herbert von Dirksen, in June 1938. Dirksen later informed Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry, that Kennedy told him that the “Jewish question” was of vital importance to U.S.-German relations. 'He himself understood our Jewish policy completely,' Dirksen wrote. 'He was from Boston and there, in one golf club, and in other clubs, no Jews had been admitted in the past 50 years … In the United States, therefore, such pronounced attitudes were quite common, but people avoided making so much outward fuss about it.'"

[Sacajaweau]

Teddy Roosevelt also said he was a Great General.

[Gumdrop]

It would be interesting if we could question the 19th century generals about how they would rate today’s ignorant masses as to morality.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-sense-of-robert-e-lee-85017563/

[mosesdapoet]

One Nation The period in American history known as reconstruction when blacks were given the vote (then restricted) gets the revisionist treatment or ignored because it doesn’t fit into the socialists agenda which calls for division. The reason those monuments in question are placed, honoring men who fought for their cause when after defeat did not continue on. But rather chose to accept and support the result to unuify the country

[BwanaNdege]

“Great Generals win Empires.”

Like Napoleon?

In Russia?

Or at Waterloo?

BTW, many Great Generals had no desire to win Empires. Some victorious countries did not seek Empires.

[Mr. K]

Lee was fighting for STATES RIGHTS.

Rights that the states were promised when they joined the union.

Slavery was just a vehicle.

Imagine if the Federal government forced them to do something else, besides get rid of their slaves?

Like buy health care.

[hardspunned]

I think Trump should really set their hair on fire by relating who the best general America ever produced was, Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[sparklite2]

That greatness may have been tempered by this ...

In April 1864, in what has been called “...one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.”,[3] troops under Forrest’s command massacred Union troops who had surrendered, most of them black soldiers along with some white Southern Tennesseans fighting for the Union, at the Battle of Fort Pillow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest

[DIRTYSECRET]

My history was a retired colonel. Lee was America’s greatest general. The only one who came close to him was MacArthur. MacArthur failed the day after Pearl Harbor. Manchester’s book blamed subordinates. Saturday mid note. Everyone musta been drunk.

[onyx]

American history.

[dp0622]

a sizable number think Lincoln led the Allied Forces rather than the Union Army...

SMFH

No words...