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In the June 1969 issue of Civil War History — Volume 5, Number 2, pages 116-132 — a renowned Southern historian attacked the legacy of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
"No single war figure stands in greater need of reevaluation than Lee," wrote Thomas L. Connelly, the late University of South Carolina professor. "One ponders whether the South may not have fared better had it possessed no Robert E. Lee."
Connelly's essay was among the first academic musket shots fired on Lee's standing as an outmatched but not outwitted military genius presiding over a Lost Cause — a reputation celebrated in fawning biographies and monuments like the one removed Friday in New Orleans.
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The Truth About Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee: He Wasn’t Very Good at His Job
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(Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 12 2017, @07:33PM (2 children)
You know, it's amazing. There were two Buddha statues in Afghanistan, a pair of twin Buddha statues. And in New York City, there were the two twin towers of the World Trade Center. And both sets were destroyed by Islam, by radical Islam. Mullah Omar said no, don't blow up the statues. But the radicals wouldn't listen. Boom! Boom! They blew them up, very bad guys. But they rebuilt the World Trade Center, made a better one. What happened was better but now we have a better one. And they're trying to rebuild those Buddha statues, to fit the pieces together (there's a word for it). And I'm rebuilding America. Fixing the horrible "carnage" going on. #MAGA
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @04:47AM (1 child)
Fake af. REAL Donal Trump wouldn't know about Bamiyan's statues, nor will most his followers :p
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 13 2017, @07:09AM
Believe me, in the hotel business and the resort business you need to know these things. Need to know what the tourists are going to see. And for Afghanistan those statues were a big, big tourist draw. Bigger than Babur's tomb. Great tomb, but the statues were bigger. The biggest. Huge attraction and huge physically. Every part of their bodies was the biggest, if you know what I mean. Let me tell you, there would be a Trump International Hotel Kabul if they hadn't blown up those statues. Honestly. But I canceled it. Because I knew that blowing up those Buddhas would be very bad for business. Would ruin the tourism business in Afghanistan. And I saw on television, Muslims everywhere were celebrating that. There were swarms of them on the rooftops in New Jersey, celebrating it. The blowing up of the two statues. Thousands of them, celebrating. Disgusting! But great state, New Jersey, I was just at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster for a fabulous wedding! Believe me, I had a lot of fun with the bride there. And you know, someone could have figured out, a smart person could have figured out, that radical Islamic terrorists would go after the World Trade Center. Honestly, I didn't figure it out until later, but looking back it's amazing. That can't be a coincidence. The two statues and the two twin towers. All gone now, very sad. And it's sad what's happening in Kabul. The bombing by the embassies, the protests, the bombing at the funeral, all of it. It's barbaric. Especially during Ramadan. I talked to Ashraf about it, I talked to President Ghani over the phone. Nice guy, very nice on the phone. Gave him my condolences. And I told him, if he needs some more bombs, America has plenty. And ours are the biggest. He knows because I dropped one, my guys dropped one, a big one on Afghanistan. You didn't hear about it in the FAKE MSM but we did that. #TrumpHotels [twitter.com] #WINNING [twitter.com]