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2020-06-21 Fifth Column

Guess Which Surrender Monkey Won the Battle of the Monuments?

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-21 07:13|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Golly gee whiz, never ask yourself the inconvenient truth why the Crow were scouts for the US Army. Something about their 'neighbors' always kicking their ass and taking territory.

I'm sure Dron can add a point or two about how the Brits treated the 'tribes' on the Northwest Territories of their Indian holdings during the 19th Century. Raiding and banditry usually invites a response from those upon whom it is visited. Well, at least from strong governments rather than weak ones.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-21 08:57|| 2020-06-21 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Sherman (and Grant) were war criminals. But to many, they are "heroes". Victors, the state, and history books.

Tolstoy said: History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-21 09:07|| 2020-06-21 09:07|| Front Page Top

Sherman vowed to remain in the West ’till the Indians are all killed or taken to a country where they can be watched.’"

In other news: The shelling of Charleston, SC has stopped and it is said you can walk freely about the city at any time, day or night. 'Extreme situations call for extreme measures.'

Generals Grant and Sherman were given a mission. They accomplished their mission. I am not at all sure our Generals today would fare as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-21 09:07|| 2020-06-21 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ..They won their wars. Today's generals are about global police actions which appear as successful as policing at home.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-21 09:45|| 2020-06-21 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Sherman (and Grant) were war criminals.

Since they pre-date the Geneva or Hague Convention just what 'war crimes' did the commit? Other than losing a war which is fundamental in history. Do you choose to play 'judging by today's standards' that the Left games?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-21 09:48|| 2020-06-21 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Lieber Code

Posted by Clem 2020-06-21 09:51|| 2020-06-21 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course, Sherman's march through Georgia was just a walk through the park. Give me a friggen break.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-21 09:52|| 2020-06-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Me, I like Nathan Bedford Forrest. Toss up between him and Subotai for the best cavalry commander.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-21 10:23|| 2020-06-21 10:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Statues, victims of public union education. WTH.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-06-21 10:40|| 2020-06-21 10:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh,that little action by the South in Kansas. Like the Germans who bomb London, you get Berlin return.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-21 11:10|| 2020-06-21 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Dresden was deemed so essential that it had to be fire-bombed by Bomber Harris weeks before the war's end?

Sherman would have loved it, I'm sure.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-21 11:35|| 2020-06-21 11:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Changing the subject - The Geneva and Hague Conventions were in play in WW2. What legally binding conventions were in play in 1861-65?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-21 11:58|| 2020-06-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

#13 The Laws of War: Their Rise in the Nineteenth Century and Their Collapse in the Twentieth

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-21 12:31|| 2020-06-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Dresden was deemed so essential that it had to be fire-bombed by Bomber Harris weeks before the war's end?

Are you arguing that Dresden was not a valid military target or that knowing what we know now, Harris made the wrong decision?

Given that Hitler would eventually kill himself in his bunker, everyone could have stayed home and sat the war out. That whole D-Day thing could have been avoided entirely.

Posted by SteveS 2020-06-21 12:39|| 2020-06-21 12:39|| Front Page Top

#15 /\ Right. You win.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-21 12:57|| 2020-06-21 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Not looking for an argument. I couldn't tell if you were just being snarky or advocating a particular viewpoint.

Posted by SteveS 2020-06-21 13:06|| 2020-06-21 13:06|| Front Page Top

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