[lbo-talk] Brit general says US/UK should "admit defeat" in Iraq

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At 10:37 PM 5/4/2007, Carl Remick wrote:
>I have heard Grant's Memoirs praised as far back as I can remember and 
>have never had the slightest interest in reading this slovenly drunk's 
>recollections of how he helped to invent industrialized total war, so 
>preparing the way for the mechanized military mass slaughter of the 20th 
>century.  The fact that, as President, this sodden star-spangled sad sack 
>nominally oversaw the most corrupt administration in US history is a mere 
>footnote to his depredations in intensifying the scale and horror of war 
>*and* in keeping the dickheads of Dixie conjoined to the (relatively) 
>civilized folk of the North.  As I said long ago on the list, it was 
>insane for the North to fight to hold onto the South, then and now a 
>hopelessly backward region peopled by poorly educated, violence-prone, 
>anti-labor, religious loonies.  The US today has a savage, reactionary, 
>simple-minded popular and political culture in large part because of Grant 
>& Co.'s triumphantly counterproductive efforts to keep the benighted South 
>forever affixed to the long-suffering North.
>
>Carl

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