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If you were to ask my wife to list the 10 best Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee would not be on her list. She thinks he was a wasteful idiot with more aggression than sense. James Longstreet would be on her list right next to Winfield Scott Hancock.

A former Confederate willing to lead black soldiers after the Civil War was pretty rare. That he happened to be one of the best Generals the Confederates had says something.

It might take a while to find because it's not one of his more famous quotes and I don't have a library of "everything Sherman said".

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/longstreet-james-1821-1904/ Still looking for the Sherman quote if that's what you want evidence for. It's buried in a book somewhere. I just need to find it.

We do learn from history. What we learn is often highly inaccurate on a good day and flat-out wrong on a bad day.

Even the worst groups have some good people who just got stuck there. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, fr'ex, was pretty much the only Confederate General to join the Republican Party and did lead black troops after the Civil War. EDIT: While he wasn't a shining example of "I'm not a racist" he was...

Yeah, pretty much.

Orthodox Christians would be just another of the many Christian sects the west has. The main differences between them revolve around minutiae.

It's not just the sunshine laws. Florida is also where a lot of media companies are headquartered. Floridaman is in the headlines because all of the spotlights are pointed right at his most recent mistake.

He isn't going to do that because openly supporting Hitler is one of the very few things which will get you permabanned from TS.

On this front you should compare a German Type VII (the terror of the Atlantic) to the American Gato-class. The Gato's are roughly 90ft longer, 4kts faster when surfaced and 2kts faster when submerged. They also have 10 torpedo tubes and an 11,000nmi, 75 day range while a Type VII had 6 tubes...

The US was a botomless well of "we can provide that" during WWII. We gave the British fifty destroyers in 1940 that we weren't using and just had floating around in reserve. Germany only built 38, total.

The US-Mexico border is 1954mi. There are 48 roads which cross it. Good luck with that and may God have mercy on your soul if you go off-road. Yes, I did see the "/s". I thought it was bullshit.

The only thing more difficult than invading Russia or China is invading the United States because you get to deal with Canada and Mexico (if only to keep them neutral and out of it) along with all of the shitty terrain and horrible weather we Americans call "Tuesday". You also get the special...

Could the US have done better? Yes Did the US want to be there? No

He was very good at keeping his mouth shut and only speaking when he had to. He was nicknamed "Silent Cal" for a reason. He was not a grandstanding "look at me" politician.

Weird thing: when the US got the Phillipines the US didn't actually want to be colonial masters. Once things in the Phillipines settled down the US was more than happy to let go of the Phillipines. The US also wasn't going to fuck it up like so many other colonial powers did and wanted a smooth...

I wouldn't say he was a great President, but I will say that he was one of the better ones. He did oversee most of the Roaring 20s ...

If Puerto Ricans want to apply for statehood, they can. Congress will almost certainly say "no" due to political partisanship and racisim.

The history of the July 4th Philippine Independece is a bit weird. The US actually got decolinization right and it would have happened in 1944 if the Japanese didn't attack the US. The other big territory the US got from the Spanish-American War was Puerto Rico. They seem to be quite happy...