Hey kids! Look how America sucks.
Let me know when 0bama says something nice about Robert E. Lee.
A more appropriate question would be, "Have I told you lately how much debt my administration is saddling on your generation?"
Read “My Life on the Prairie” by Custer and you get a really good picture of the man.
Highlights:
He positively hated the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A Bureau that should have been ended 150 years ago.
The one thing that everyone who was there seemed to agree on was that it was a very strange affair. Whatever Custer's real tactical intentions were, a massacre wasn't one of them. Custer did have his vainglorious tendencies but completely discarding his intelligence information as he did was not typical behavior. And numerous spoken histories on the part of the Sioux contained a sincere disbelief that he could have committed the series of blunders that placed him three-quarters of the way up a poorly defensible ridge.
Much of the mythology that surrounds the event is a function of Custer's wife, who tactfully omitted certain particulars (his Native American mistress, for one), and of Buffalo Bill's show, that sensationalized the battle and turned it into a media event. Both Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse strike me as rather admirable men, and so, for all his faults, does Custer, whose career paralleled Crazy Horse's in some very interesting ways. But of them, Sitting Bull was by far the superior strategist. IMHO.
Noticed your connection to American Indians in another thread. Figured this one might interest you.
My first reaction is, “doesn’t he have better things to do, like help restore the economy?” But then I realized that if he’s distracted by little bull stuff like this then he can’t cause so much trouble where it really matters.
So... keep up the good work, Obambi.