We are definitely on the same page….

“I regard Sherman as a model for how war should be conducted. If you’re going to war, go all in, and fight to win and destroy the enemy. None of this “limited rules of engagement” or “negotiated settlement” crap. All that does is prolong it and cause resentments to simmer and flare up again at a future date.”

Look how well Japan turned out. 😉

Kill however many it takes, destroy everything necessary, and then once they raise the white flag tell them exactly what they must do to continue breathing and blinking. Anything less is not victory and nothing trumps victory.

I understand your gut feeling, but Sherman was given a task and he did end the war of northern aggression swiftly through his scorched earth policy. In the long run that probably saved lives on both sides.

Exactly so, and Sherman himself knew it very well:

“War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.”

I’m a lifelong Northerner who is rather sympathetic to the cause of Southern independence. But, nevertheless, I regard Sherman as a model for how war should be conducted. If you’re going to war, go all in, and fight to win and destroy the enemy. None of this “limited rules of engagement” or “negotiated settlement” crap. All that does is prolong it and cause resentments to simmer and flare up again at a future date.

We need more Shermans, Pattons, and LeMays today fighting the threat from Islam. Sooner or later, one way or another, we will get them.

I understand your gut feeling, but Sherman was given a task and he did end the war of northern aggression swiftly through his scorched earth policy. In the long run that probably saved lives on both sides.

“Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train. ‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. In the winter of ’65, we were hungry, just barely alive, by May the tenth, Richmond had fell. It’s a time I remember, oh so well.

The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing, the night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singing they went, La, la, la.

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee. Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood, and I don’t care if the money’s no good, you take what you need and you leave the rest. But they should never have taken the very best.”

“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”

Plus ca change. . . .

“Panic Porn” is good, too. All they’re doing is ginning up hysteria to attract eyeballs, and they really get wrapped around the axle when there’s any Evil Demon-spawn Nukular stuff involved.

“I wish Earth was pristine and clean again.”

AH! The liberal utopian mind! Someone should explain to him/her that the world was NEVER pristine and clean. Take the ocean, for example. Let this liberal know that s/he’s swimming in fish poop, whale sperm and the particulate matter of decaying carcasses. Pristine, indeed! That ought to keep the enviro-weenies away from the beach this summer.

Igotbupkis (10:46 above) writes:

“Who are you to tell people they CANNOT risk their lives exploring places no one has ever been . . . .”

Carrying that one step further, Lester Thurow (retired Dean MIT Sloane School of Business) discusses Columbus setting sail. Educated people in the 15th century knew the world was round, so why didn’t they sail earlier? Sea Monsters–afraid they would be eaten.

When Columbus returned, he was just lucky; after multiple trips, people began to think that perhaps there weren’t any sea monsters; after hundreds of trips they knew there weren’t sea monsters. The problem is, the first people who make the trip and take the chance become the colonial governors (or they get eaten), the people who make the trip when it’s safe, become the colonists.

“Nothing we do is worth getting hurt?” Then stay safe and do nothing–where does this person work? A mattress-testing company?

Older people, men, and Republicans seem to get it.)]

Is that a nice way of saying People who aren’t Democrats?

Just think of America playing Blackjack with the world in 20 year increments. The last two games we can thank expanding liberalism and feminism for making us stick at about 14. A bigger in reality.