Posted on 10/12/2018 7:13:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
You come in at the end of a discussion and start talking shit. Did you miss the part where acknowledging the prowess of your enemy does not mean you are a commie?
Or are you one of those people who are going to be shocked when we get our nose bloodied because we think we are invinceable?
Even in business we are always looking for best practices. Especially from our competitors. Why not in our enemies?
my error, I meant DL, aka Diogenes Lamp
Why would anyone on the FR admire Rommel or Guderian, they were Nazi’s that fought the United States and our allies.
There were Military genius’ and are still studied by many military academies just like Patton, Lee, Grant, and many others. It’s not a personal admiration but the fact they were great military leaders.
As was Giap.
Jackson was a great tactical general but he was bat sh!t crazy.
I firmly believe before too long allegiance to your state will supersede the allegiance to the corrupt USA.
Wrong. Lee’s infantry tactics are studied throughout military academies world wade.
August 9, 1960
Dear Dr. Scott:
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.
Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When President A$$ Longcolon repackaged the war after Sharpsburg as the war to free the black man, he needed the conscription act to back up his big executive order that really did nothing.
If you judge the people of the 19th century by the standards of the 21st century you will get very distorted view of history.
That's a pretty good summation.
That was a year after the Confederate Congress passed a draft act. One of the provisions was that if you owned 20 slaves or more, you were exempt from the draft.
So can a patriot hate the Federal Government and still love his state?
Do you suppose that his tactically brilliant calls at Malvern Hill and his 3rd day assault on Cemetery Ridge make the cut.
The meme that the South wanted to conquer that North is total BS fairy tale. The USA would have been fine either way with or without the South. The war was a choice and not necessity for the North. They fought it like that too.
don’t feel it Too much migration between states.
Total BS. Animals survive humans need more than that. Buzz off loser talk.
Because people with brains can learn form adversaries and friends a like. Even those most professional country club Republican pols hate Donald Trump and consider him the enemy, they could learn a lot from him.
The reason for the CSA conscription was much more simple and less political, the harsh reality of life in the PACS made the draft a necessity. Nobody was volunteering after 1862. It wasn’t the fighting or the cause they hated, it was the the neglect, lack of proper clothing, the feast or famine and the 20 mile hell marches.
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