September 06, 2006
Media Treachery: A Proud Tradition

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."- William Tecumseh Sherman

Well, how about that. There's one hundred and fifty years of proud media tradition going on there.

Posted by ERNurse at September 06, 2006 09:59 PM | Email This
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1. Who knew the Butcher of Atlanta had this much common sense.

Posted by: JB on September 6, 2006 11:54 PM
2. Sherman spoke his mind in the same manner with which he led his army: up front, unapologetically, purposefully, and with ruthless determination to drive his point home. Here was a man who could sum up the nature of war in three monosyllabic words ("War is hell") and reinforce his point with actions.

Still, Sherman was no Himmler. He did not round up townsfolk, have them publically executed, and then thrown unceremoniously into mass graves to get the citizens to cooperate. He simply steamrolled through the south and left a smoking ruined trail in his army's wake. He knew how to blitzkrieg long before Guderian and Rommel were born.

But as brutal as his style of warfare was, in the long run that kind if strategy saves lives. Fighting inch-for-inch for land, as was done in WW1, caused the deaths of millions upon millions of young men. William Tecumseh Sherman was the George Patton or Holland M. Smith of his day. We'll never see military commanders with such courage and verve again. Our country is better for having them.

And the press was, evidently, just as loathesome then as it is today.

Posted by: ERNurse on September 7, 2006 12:09 PM
3. It was Sherman, more than anything else that broke the will of the South to fight. The key to winning a fight is the enemie's will, break them of the will the fight, and victory follows.

Posted by: JCM on September 7, 2006 12:49 PM
4. Sherman was a military genius and a forthright leader. If only we had men of his caliber today. Sherman not only was not like Himmler, he went out of his way to warn towns that he was coming so that they could evacuate before his arrival. Eventually, as he headed north from Georgia, so great a fear had he instilled, that the mere prospect of his arrival was enough for surrender.

This is the fear and the determination needed to confront violent Islam. And for that matter, to confront our treacherous and treasonous mainstream media.

Posted by: Jeff B. on September 7, 2006 03:17 PM
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