RE: They Risk Upsetting The Bulk of Their Customer Base
June 23, 2015 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2015 at 4:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Stepping back, allow me to put this another way. Conceding that flag to interested parties does us no great service, it adds -further- shame to that which we clearly hope to forget, but in our more lucid moments look to make amends for. Make sense?
@Adding on to Mins comment above. He'd hoped from the beginning that he could shorten the duration of conflict, or lessen the destruction thereof -whomever- the conflict turned for. It may have been this goal (not, as might seem the suggestion..that he wanted to lose -before anyone gets the idea that I'm suggesting this) which led him to make the decision that he made. He -accurately- judged that the Union at Gettysburg was spent, he may have seen the opportunity to end it right there and then. His comments and plan, at least, seem to suggest that this may have very likely been the case. Had the Confederacy won at Gettysburg......we'd be reading a -much- different history in our textbooks.
@Adding on to Mins comment above. He'd hoped from the beginning that he could shorten the duration of conflict, or lessen the destruction thereof -whomever- the conflict turned for. It may have been this goal (not, as might seem the suggestion..that he wanted to lose -before anyone gets the idea that I'm suggesting this) which led him to make the decision that he made. He -accurately- judged that the Union at Gettysburg was spent, he may have seen the opportunity to end it right there and then. His comments and plan, at least, seem to suggest that this may have very likely been the case. Had the Confederacy won at Gettysburg......we'd be reading a -much- different history in our textbooks.
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