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I need to say that even though I understand, to some diploma at the least, people’s fascination with the Civil War, I’ve never understood the romanticization of the Confederacy. It didn’t last really long, it was horribly run and governed, it accomplished nothing but disaster and defeat,Tiffany Rings Uk, and it existed in the service of a horrible cause. I once angered an alumnus of Washington & Lee by suggesting that Robert E. Lee,Tiffany Ring, however personally admirable he might have been in some ways,Pandora Bracelet, bore huge responsibility — if he had honored his oath to the Union, the war probably would have been over in six months, leaving everyone (and especially the South) better off.
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(Excerpted from his discussion of a new book called The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,Pandora Leather Necklaces, which is apparently written by a Confederate sympathizer (go here for commentary on that).)
Glenn’s position doesn’t surprise me at all, mind you — why would it? — but it’s a nice reminder that individuals can see the Confederacy as the craptacular mistake it was on either side of the Mason-Dixon line.
I haven’t read the book in question, so I can’t comment on it myself, though I suspect I won’t be pleased with it if I read it since, among other things, the guy writing the book calls the Civil War “The War of Northern Aggression.” My response to that has always been: Well, the CSA attempting to abscond with a third of the land mass of the United States strikes me as fairly damn aggressive.