Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Traitors Or Patriots?

So I’m surfing today...I found the following snippet at Tongue Tied @ FoxNews.com in the Mailbag section:

    There is nothing funny about Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee, and I am not referring to racial insensitivity. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors—anti-Americans at their best. They tried to dissolve the United States without good reason.
I don’t know what the original TT item was that prompted this irate response. But it’s a question that stands on it’s own, I think.

The writer of the letter is from New Jersey - a northerner. I, a southerner, have a very different view of Davis and Lee - I’ve expressed my admiration for Lee here before. Anyone else think that they were traitors?

As for their attempt to dissove the United States without good reason, that’s not quite true. Their intent was not to dissolve the United States, but to have the federal government of those United States abide by their own Constitution and federalist ideals of the states rights superceding federal. (I’m not a poli-sci nor history scholar, if I’m wrong on that, please feel free to correct me.) As for the “without good reason” phrase - that’s just ridiculous. They had a plethora of good reasons, which, if history were taught correctly, the writer would know.

She added the following, which made me chuckle at the odd comparison:

    Would we name an Elementary school after Stalin or Usama Bin Laden?
Really, you can’t equate Davis-Lee with Stalin-Bin Laden. Apples and oranges… Posted by at 04:58 PM
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