Posted on 01/18/2005 5:57:53 PM PST by wagglebee
I don't think so. There are plenty more examples that good taste would prohibit from posting.
I guess that makes the Cofenderacy stupid and traitorous huh?
I mean, this must have been a known obstacle right? Surely men as smart as the leaders of the Confederacy would have known what they were up against? Yet they chose to launch a suicidal war to destroy the U.S. anyway?
Guess they were dumber than I thought.
Excuse me? Who launched the war? And by the way, being outmanned, outgunned and out-industrialized was never a reason to surrender. Ask George Washington.
Mostly children who pollute my FR when they ought to be playing their Grand Theft Auto.
That would be you.
Interesting. How do you come to that conclusion? The Southern Agrarians (I'll Take My Stand) saw it much differently.
I think the Industrialiasm in the North vs the Agriculture in the South, and all the ramifications of that, needs consideration.
Consider that as much time had passed between Plymouth Rock/Jamestown until 1860 as has elapsed from 1860 to now (roughly.)
I agree with the Agrarians that two separate nations (look up the definition) were sharing the continent and the Union in 1860.
One must get the big picture on this. What happened is what happened. Whether it was for good or not is why we keep talking about it.
Get checked for attention deficeit syndrome - video games will do that.
Hello!!!
The North launched the war.
Most Union defenders see that as a plus - War of Northern Aggression.
Freppmail with any issues you have with me - stem
"Happy Birthday, Lee. Too bad you fought for the wrong side. "
Keep your damned snide insults veiled you carpetbagger
Lee was one of very few who simply cannot be faulted,
another Washington, but for a failed and flawed cause;
a man deserving of his own holiday as much as ANY other.
The cause was not flawed....the rights and freedom and Constitutional government desired was overridden by a repressive industrial North...and the South was itself enslaved for a hundred years and even in part to this day...
The CAUSE is dimmed by big government ...not failed
Can't we think of anyone better to remember? I understand Lee was one of America's greatest generals and that he was against slavery. The world was different, but come on people.
We have greater heroes that can be remembered. Truman had the courage to do one of the hardest things ANY President has been asked to do. Churchill isn't an American, but he's a true hero in any sense. And Ronald Reagan is the great American and greatest intellecutal we have ever had.
Let the civil war go people.
GregGinn seems to be neither particularly well-educated nor particularly respectful .... mushy liberal thoughts spout forth from that sarcastic mouth
It's Lee's birthday, not Truman's or Churchill's.
I beg to disagree with whatever it was your Mom taught you...it certainly wasn't manners or erudition....
and most of Hotlanta has sounded like Brooklyn and Manhattan for the last thirty years...maybe you're that kind of Hotlantan
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