Posted on 06/09/2020 7:14:31 PM PDT by robowombat
David Petraeus: Remove Names of Confederate ‘Traitors’ from Army Bases
Retired U.S. Army General and former CIA Director David Petraeus on Tuesday wrote in an op-ed for The Atlantic that “It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military installation,” a reference to bases named after Gen. Henry Benning in Columbus, Georgia, and Gen. Braxton Bragg in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
It gives me considerable pause, for example, to note that my alma mater, West Point, honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks, the last of which was built during the 1960s. A portrait of Lee with an enslaved person adorns a wall of the cadet library, the counterpoint to a portrait of Grant, his Civil War nemesis, on a nearby wall.
[…] We do not live in a country to which Braxton Bragg, Henry L. Benning, or Robert E. Lee can serve as an inspiration. Acknowledging this fact is imperative. Should it fail to do so, the Army, which prides itself on leading the way in perilous times, will be left to fight a rearguard action against a more inclusive American future, one that fulfills the nation’s founding promise.
Last Thursday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced a statue of Robert E. Lee will be removed “as soon as possible” from Richmond’s Monument Avenue.
The statue, which sits on state property, will move to storage while Northam’s administration works “with the community to determine its future,” the governor said at a news conference where the announcement was met with extended applause.
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One comment struck me as interesting:
Once they get to removing the statues of the framers of the Constitution they will have succeeded in rationalizing the removal of any document written by the founders. This is why under Obama so much in the way of Fabrication and false hoods were written to attack Thomas Jefferson. His statues will now be targeted next.
Of course the Constitution is the true target of the cultural cleansing campaign. First statues then any pictorial representation and then documents.
He really was “Betrayus” after all...
Shut up David, you adulterous sack of crap!!
Let’s cut to the chase and just divide the country up ...
It’s funny how peace officers are stigmatized but military generals are wise and should be listened to.
While we are disappearing Confederate monuments, lets disappear Arlington Cemetery since Arlington belonged to Robert E. Lee and slaves worked there.
Back under your rock, with you.
At least Petraeus got a good college position for his troubles. Most GOP who become politically punished find it hard getting a top job afterward. Dems, that is rarely the case.
And in an odd shift of perspective, I think we can now call him “BetrayUs”.
I never could stand that prick. He was always a political hack.
Go bang a chick with man hands...
While we are disappearing Confederate monuments, lets disappear Arlington Cemetery since Arlington belonged to Robert E. Lee and slaves worked there.
I am waiting for the push to remove the Confederate Monument at Arlington. It is both one of the largest and the only monument that features African Americans.
Takes one to know one.
What about the items named for Indian tribes and chiefs?They were at war with the US at one timw.
Since Betrayus feels that these past historical figures don’t represent “who we are”, he perhaps would support renaming military bases after George Floyd, Gentle Giant Michael Brown, Travon Martin, and others of their ilk. Might be great also to tear down all offensive monuments and erect new ones in honor of those (like the above individuals) who will truly raise the level of consciousness in the USA that our forefathers built./s
Betrayus betrays US AGAIN!
Erasing history is TALIBAN behavior.
UnAmerican asshole, go eff your biographer while your soldiers do without. Low life POS
Not only that, he got to meet and marry the commandant's daughter!! How much better could that be for his career. Then he screwed it up, temporarily, when he had some affairs.
“Writing in The Atlantic”.
This venue seems to be the media of choice for Never Trumper former senior military officers, and senior civilian Deep Staters in the various federal gov’t departments.
There is a reason for this. Their blather is not meant to be read by Americans. The Atlantic is a Venue where they can Virtue Signal that they are Woke Cucks.
And, thus ensure that their PC employers will be satisfied and not dump them from their cushy Six-Figure jobs.
They could care less about our country. They just want to ensure that they will continue to live a cushy life-style.
you’re right.
their end game is to “fundamentally transform this country”
And us being alive is in the way.
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