Not condoning Shermans methods but he said “War is cruel. The crueler it is the sooner it’s over’’.
“Not condoning Shermans methods but he said “War is cruel. The crueler it is the sooner it’s over’’.”
My points are:
1) The essential hypocrisy of the left regarding “war crimes”. The same leftists who today express outrage at slavery practiced 150 years ago, or the waterboarding of Muslim terrorists, can easily justify the scorched earth tactics, rape, and murder employed by Sherman agains the civilian population of the South. Sherman’s savagery demonstrates that morality is situational and self defined, not absolute.
2) The fact most southerners were independent farmers and not slaveholders. They suffered death, loss of property, starvation, and poverty for decades after the Civil War. To levy reparations on them for slavery is unjust.
He also said “War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”