Grant, was Re: The Confederacy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jan 10 09:13:32 PST 2001


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



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