What is the point is a cowardly Congress kowtowing to modern American version of the Taliban. Those Forts were named as a effort to reconcile the country at a time the country needed it as the folks populating the services were largely southernors.
Changing the names, if it must or desired to be done, should be done in the same manner bases are closed not under the threat of rioting, by people who could give a crap about funding the military and actually hate the military. So that is just BS.
My father was career Army, and I spent my career working at a defense contractor. I deeply care about properly funding the military, especially as we have troops in active combat in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Why do you want to veto military spending and put the lives of US soldiers (and Marines, Seamen, and Airmen) at risk? You really think that it’s more important to continue to honor traitors?
I really don’t see this as the Congress kowtowing (nice choice of words, by the way) as I see it as (finally) doing the right thing. We shouldn’t have US Army bases named after traitors.
As regards to the statement that “the folks populating the services were largely southerners”, I guess I’d like to see proof of that. Fort Bragg was established in 1918, and Fort Hood was established in 1942. Since we had the draft in both wars, I would suspect that the Army’s population would be drawn equally from all states. Since the northern states had a a larger population, I would assume that they had a higher proportion of service members.