Rename Military Bases Named After Confederate Leaders?

[kutter]

They were soldiers for a sovereign nation and served that nation with distinction until it collapsed. Most Confederate generals were more skilled and more civilized than Yankee generals in the war of Northern Aggression.

An astute observation lost on many. In fact on paper the north should have won the wore in 6-9 months. They were so far ahead in manufacturing and personnel, but I suspect they did not believe that some states that seceded would, ie. Virginia taking with it the best tactician in the country and one of the best cavalry/reconnaissance officers. It was only through sublime leadership and plain hard headedness that the south managed to drag the war out to 4 years. The thing that I find so ironic in modern times is most people have forgotten why the war was fought. Everyone is quick to answer slavery, but that was only one part of the bigger issue, states rights. The Confederacy believed that states knew better how to govern their individual persons than someone in Washington. A point I find supremely ironic now that liberal states are pushing back so much against Trump.

[ClydeR]

Trump is keeping this issue alive..

Donald Trump’s speech on Sunday took an unexpected turn when he went on a tangent about the names of U.S. military installations.

“We won world wars out of forts,” he said at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire. “Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that.”

Trump then essentially repeated what he’d just said.

“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he said. “It’s unbelievable.”

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[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Trump is keeping this issue alive..

That's cutting edge reporting. Good job sniffing that headliner out.

[Parkbandit]

That's cutting edge reporting. Good job sniffing that headliner out.

[ClydeR]

Backward or Forward?

Trump went to a state recovering from a hurricane, and the first question he asked was if he should rename things after Confederate generals.

Former President Trump on Friday vowed to revert North Carolina’s Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg if he’s elected this fall, a little over a year after the military installation was redesignated to remove the name of a Confederate general.

“The first question that I asked: Should we change the name from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?” Trump said, prompting raucous applause from the crowd gathered for his town hall in Fayetteville, near the base. “So here’s what we do, we get elected. I’m doing it.”

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This is the guy Trump wants to honor..

Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War. Most of the battles he engaged in ended in defeat. Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline. Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians, though some point towards the failures of Bragg's subordinates, especially Major General and former Bishop Leonidas Polk—a close ally of Davis and known enemy of Bragg—as more significant factors in the many Confederate defeats under Bragg's command. The losses suffered by Bragg's forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederate States of America.

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