Posted on 05/25/2020 1:09:17 PM PDT by kevcol
Top Pentagon officials late Sunday blasted The New York Times for a Memorial Day weekend editorial that criticized the military for naming bases after Confederate generals.
The piece, titled “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy,” ran in Sunday’s print edition of the newspaper. It argued that “it is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.”
The editorial singled out Georgia’s Fort Benning, North Carolina’s Fort Bragg and other installations
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The NYT’s is out of control. And has a openly racist woman/girl on their editorial board. Pathetic.
I wonder how things would have turned out differently if Lincoln had not been assassinated?
The bases are located in Southern states which provided the land for the military reservations. A normal person from South Carolina isn’t going to donate land to a post to be named Ft. Sherman, Ft. Grant, etc. Also, historically loyal Southerners have made up the majority of the US military.
No amount of newsprint can cover the fact that General Lee's Plantation will be visited by more people every year than the ancestral home of ANY other American.
Once again, we see the words of Genesis 50:20 come into being:
Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people.
Duh... Confederate soldiers were US citizens go pick up a history book I mean a real history book not the crap you learned in high school and grade school it’s showing
“But, “the most powerful force for good in world history”, is a bit over the top.”
I disagree. We saved our country and the world from tyranny and decline in WWII. When it was over, the world lay broken at our feet for the taking. For the only time in history a military power with complete power to take whatever it wanted and rule the world...didn’t do that.
Instead it loaned money to help rebuild what had been destroyed on both sides, and kept soldiers on duty around the globe to make sure things would stay safer for civilization.
That’s why America exceptionalism is real. The lives Americans have enjoyed since and will continue to enjoy (hopefully) would not have taken place with those acts.
Today we remain an imperfect but good country surrounded by atrocious countries. None of them hold a candle to us.
If the US isn’t the most powerful force for good in world history, what country or kingdom was or is? I’d be interested to know. Name that country.
Well, there is a Fort Pickett, and one of the most prominent areas of Fort Riley is Custer Hill.
They were soldiers, not ideologists like the Democrat pro slavery bunch
Maybe take down the names of Larry Byrd first
“Maybe take down the names of Larry Byrd first”
Celtics fans won’t like that.
FM Kesselring
During the Civil War he had what was called “Custer’s Luck”. Custer was pretty successful...except for that last skirmish.
Don’t forget Fort McClellan, Alabama. Of course George McClellan did train the Army of the Potomac well, but in the field he was the Confederacy’s secret weapon...
“Top Pentagon officials late Sunday blasted The New York Times for a Memorial Day weekend editorial”
Any possibility the pentagon can send them a reply affixed to the front of an AGM86B with the W80 option.
The rising anti-Confederate hysteria, so different from the situation when I was a boy (and I never lived South of Brooklyn NY) is a very interesting phenomenon.
It is actually quite similar to all the anti-Nazi hysteria. When I was a boy there were millions of living Nazis and we had Hogan’s Heroes and movies like Battle of the Bulge. Now, there are no living Nazis, and we have movies like Inglorious Basterds.
Valor is an old-fashioned concept that isn’t discussed much anymore.
I imagine that most NYT reporters have little understanding of it.
At least his book was read. :)
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