re: Stan McChrystal - Good riddance: Americans need to set aside icons like Robert E. Lee...

The author of Rexy’s article is bashing Trump’s no shemales in the military two posts down the page as cruel


Rex regurgitating his words verbatim

Delusional. And I thought we couldn’t speak bad about generals? Which is it?

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Rex

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Watching you post is like observing the aftermath of a gruesome car wreck. I know I should look away but I just can’t.

In fairness, Lincoln was operating under the recommendations of his General-in-Chief at the time, Winfield Scott. Lee had been on Scott's staff during the Mexican War and was a fellow Virginian to boot.

It was probably for the best that Lee did not take the command because I feel his fate would have been the same as McDowell's at First Bull Run. Lee struggled at the beginning of the war as he found his footing and learned the rigors of high command. I feel like that would have hurt him had he been in charge early on in the conflict.

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Holy frick man. Grow some damn balls.

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Yeah dude!

Just be unapologetically racist! When someone calls you out on it, just look at them and tell them that THEY are the racists.

Who wouldn't want the chance to circle jerk about how racist you aren't!?!

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You’re a dumbass

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Am I?

Before the Civil War, the largest army any U.S. officer had ever commanded was the 12,000 General Scott took with him to Vera Cruz in the Mexican-American War. McDowell was immediately put in charge of an army more than twice that number. West Point had not prepared its officers for assignments like that. At the time, the U.S. Military Academy was focused more on small unit tactics than large-scale, grand strategy involving armies numbering in their tens of thousands.

Lee struggled early on in the war. He lost the Confederacy what is now West Virginia while in command there in the early-summer of 1861. The man did not start off with a brilliant reputation. In fact, when he took command of the Confederate army in 1862, just about every southerner thought the war was lost. Had he commanded the Union army at Bull Run he would have run into similar problems McDowell did: undisciplined militia who did not respond well to orders and who moved extremely slowly on the march.

Lee's solid command of the tactical picture would not have been enough to win Bull Run. We saw that during the Seven Days' Campaign when Lee first took command. You can have the best battle plan ever designed, but if your troops don't get into position when they need to, everything can go awry. That's why the Union army lost Bull Run in the first place.

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At the time, the U.S. Military Academy was focused more on small unit tactics than large-scale, grand strategy involving armies numbering in their tens of thousands.

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Much of the curriculum focused on Engineering.

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Lee struggled early on in the war. He lost the Confederacy what is now West Virginia while in command there in the early-summer of 1861

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He made mistakes, but that one was not his fault.

The Confederacy sent two separate armies, led by rival commanders, and then they sent Lee to oversee them.

It’s been a long time, I don’t remember the rational for dividing the confederate forces, but I assume it was politics, and finding billets for people who wanted them. Neither commander was willing to work with the other and McClellan wrapped up their divided forces.

He didn’t have any real power over them.

If there was a civil war general that McChrystal admired, I would have guessed it would have been Nathaniel Banks or John Bell Hood.