>>17848173

Lee was a one-in-a-million combination of excellent tactician, decent strategist, and excellent tard wrangler.

Also see >>17848289, Johnston was actually regarded as the Confederacy 's best general at the time of his death because Lee was still a relatively obscure nobody being mocked in Southern newspapers for building trenches around Richmond (that later proved essential during the Siege of Petersburg

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>>63902936

I'm not a left-winger or a thirdie, but the sheer degree of these two's self-aggrandizement genuinely disgusts me.

I'm being completely serious, the utterly bottomless depth of their narcissism makes me fucking sick. Hundreds of people (the overwhelming majority of them civilians) are dead, thousands more have been left homeless, entire generations of Israelis and Iranians have been traumatized and will carry the emotional scars of those terrible nights where their skies lit up with missiles into the 22nd Century. And instead of at least having the decency to hide in shame, these two do a victory lap.