Grant, was Re: The Confederacy

[Carrol Cox]

Grant's _Memoirs_ is a truly great work. Did Lee ever
write anything worth reading? Grant also explains the
necessity, given the nature of the Confederate State, for
the military policy of unconditional surrender.

Of course looking back at everything from the
present and from a global perspective, the world
would be better off had the Confederacy won,
thus fragmenting the U.S. and permanently
subordinating it to British imperialism. And the
_tradition_ of unconditional surrender in u.s.
military thinking as been a source of continuing
disasters for the world.

Carrol