" ... feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuation of the contest, I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen."
Robert E. Lee, April 10, 1865
Don't you wish that Bush had that sort of clear-minded realism?
2007-03-28 05:26:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
This is a really interesting, and great, comparison. Lee was intelligent enough to know when there was no way that his side could win. It would be really nice if G-Dub would apply the same logic as one of the greatest generals in history.
2007-03-28 05:34:39 · answer #1 · answered by juddthestud1987 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Lee was the best general in the civil war. He lost because he had fewer men, poorer equipment and an army poorly fed and clothed. His army was resolute in the fact that they were fighting for a cause they believed in. After the war when it was time to rebuild the South carpetbaggers and skaliwags made the process that much worse. They were there to profit from any spoils the end of the war might yield. Some Southern insurgents could not get over the fact that they had lost and kept fighting the best way they knew how. Most Southerners, however, resigned themselves to the fact that their side lost and went on with their mundane lives.
You didn't see Lee or any of the Southern or Northern leaders standing for a photo op with the sign Mission Accomplished behind them. The war was brutal and expensive. Much of the South didn't feel the reconstruction until the 20th Century.
General Lee was a clear minded realist. Bush is a dreamer of what might be or might have been. His desire to rule the world is falling apart all around him.
2007-03-28 12:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Look at the mess Lee's surrender has made of this country.
Hell No!
It's just a shame Bush didn't recognize the enemy. Saddam was a ruthless dictator, but he was our ally against radical islam. So was Slobodon Milosovic.
Had we included them in the "coalition of the willing", Islam would be under control today, but noooooooooooo, we had to chuck a rock at the beehive, now we're dancin' like a cat on a hot tin roof!
And who's the big winner? The banksters who perpetrated 9/11 and finance the very expensive and long-term gulf war.
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2007-03-28 12:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes, Lee was really a very capable military field commander. He only gave up after his army was reduced to 10th its size and he was facing an overwhelm force. I doubt even you would describe that as our current situation in Iraq.
There may be quotes to support you position. This was not one.
2007-03-28 12:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nobody with even 1 functioning brain cell would compare the situation of the Confederate army in 1865 to the US army today.
2007-03-28 12:31:11 · answer #5 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You realize, of course, that the violence that followed the US Civil War could easily be characterized as an insurgency, using the standards the LIBS and DEMS are applying to Iraq...
...which would mean that LIBS would, in effect, be supporting the violence wrought by ex-Confederate soldiers and the early Klan.
you might want to rethink your argument, skippy.
2007-03-28 12:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Great general and an honorable man , reportedly but he chose the wrong side. Our president is on the right side of history even if his has stumbled along the way
2007-03-28 12:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I WISH Bush could posess such Realism.
Lee is doing what Democrats (and now many Republicans) are doing now: Admitting when a war is a mistake.
2007-03-28 12:30:04 · answer #8 · answered by Da Man 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yes. Him and his friends. I'm kinda old, (so time used to move fast) but these last 6 years have dragged. about 650 more days to go. I don't get any pleasure in watching this administration crash, and take us down. It's very painful.
2007-03-28 12:34:20 · answer #9 · answered by dan b 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes, i wish bush was as smart as lee.
heck, i just wish bush could speak with the level of a high school graduate...
2007-03-28 12:31:25 · answer #10 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋