Bigmack
Bigmack's JournalFrom the Duffleblog... military version of the Onion...
I love the Duffleblog, but I confess I was a little confused by the title of this one for a minute.
Then I remembered that there are 10 US military bases named after Confederate generals.
"A Department of Defense spokesman announced this week that the Army will be reactivating the 23rd Americal Division, most famous for its role in the Vietnam War. The division will be stationed at Fort Ho Chi Minh, currently under construction near Jackson, Miss.
The name of the post has sparked some controversy with Vietnam veterans and those who lost loved ones during that conflict, however Pentagon officials pointed out that the name follows the time-honored Army tradition of naming its military installations after enemies of the nation."
Why not a US base named after Uncle Ho...? he was a brave and resourceful foe. Or maybe a Naval Base in Hawaii named after Japanese Admiral Yamamoto...? Again, brave, brilliant tactician... he sure caught us with our pants down at Pearl.
Kinda like Lee or Benning....
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/army-reactivates-americal-fort-ho-chi-minh/
Civil War and slavery...
I know Fox is pumping their listeners full of shit about the Civil War....."It wasn't about slavery!"
Bullshit!
From the Confederates themselves....
"There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery."
"Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery." (ed. note.... you gotta be shitting me!)
"We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing."
"African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism."
"The extension of slavery is the vital point of the whole controversy between the North and the South...Amendments to the federal constitution are urged by some as a panacea for all the ills that beset us. That instrument is amply sufficient as it now stands, for the protection of Southern rights, if it was only enforced. The South wants practical evidence of good faith from the North, not mere paper agreements and compromises. They believe slavery a sin, we do not, and there lies the trouble."
...and on and on...
http://www.civilwarcauses.org/quotes.htm
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