Deranged conman says Robert E. Lee would have won in Afghanistan.

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BREAKING: Deranged lunatic former President riles up his brain dead cult members by praising literal traitor to the United States, Gen. Robert E. Lee, who surrendered after helping cause 600,000+ deaths.

Deranged conman goes onto say Lee would have won in Afghanistan.
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3:48 PM · Sep 8, 2021 from Malibu, CA

[Sherman A1]

1. Well, Lee was a good tactician

but not a good strategist. That title would fall to U.S. Grant or Winfield Scott who developed the Anaconda Plan.

[brush]

16. Gen. Sherman too.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Pickett's Charge Was Terrible Tactics

A charge across open field against an entrenched enemy with the high ground and crossfire lines? Really dumb. And, Longstreet knew it.
He repeated the same mistake around 6 months later.
So, I'm not convinced he was all that good a tactician, either. (You're spot on about his strategy. Invading the north was monumentally stupid.)
If McClellan hadn't been such an officious twit or Burnside hadn't been such an incompetent buffoon, the war wouldn't have lasted 18 months.

[ornotna]

2. He couldn't win in his own backyard

tRump is soooo stupid.

[Mysterian]

22. And had his ass handed to him when he ventured into Western Virginia

in his first campaign.

[malaise]

3. The Slobfather and Lee are both losers

Why didn't he win in Afghanistan - fucking lunatic

[Celerity]

31. Lee only won 5 of his 15 major battles

[meadowlander]

5. If only the author of this statement had had the full force of the US military - Afghanistan

would have been sorted years ago.

Oh, wait...

[gratuitous]

7. Yeah, isn't that odd?

It's like the former guy totally forgot who was running things last year, and why didn't that guy do more than make the rubble bounce in Afghanistan with his mother of all bombs?

[central scrutinizer]

6. How do you explain the four years

When you were CiC but didn’t achieve a resounding victory?

[Biophilic]

8. Yes, but he lost. Too, too stupid. nt

[spanone]

9. My Chihuahua has a tighter grasp on reality than tfg.

[sop]

10. The deranged lunatic former president was probably trying to incite his racist, moron followers,

and demagoguing about Bobby Lee's statue being taken down in Richmond today.

[Totally Tunsie]

11. TFG is pissed that these statues are coming down because

he still believes he's deserving to have one of himself planted on a pedestal and, with each removal, it's dawning on him that the likelihood of this is dwindling.

In his mind, he sees Marine Two high up on concrete with his bulbous body emerging. Horse? He don't ride no stinkin' horse!

[Klaralven]

12. No, but William Tecumseh Sherman would have

He would have left scorched earth and no effective resistance behind.

Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas involved little fighting but large-scale destruction of cotton plantations and other infrastructure, a systematic policy intended to undermine the ability and willingness of the Confederacy to continue fighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman

[maxsolomon]

13. I think this point is lost on so many:

American could have won in Afghanistan, but we'd have had to pretty much destroy it, and slaughter nearly all the (male) inhabitants. It's not like we don't have the capacity; we don't have the will.

Nor should we.

[Klaralven]

14. The Roman's coined the term "decimate"

If you kill 1 out of 10 of a group, you effectively subdue the rest.

[maxsolomon]

21. Not quite how that worked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

It was a military punishment where you had to kill 1/10th of your cohort for failure or insubordination.

Warfare in the Ancient World involved wholesale slaughter and enslavement. There was no one left to resist.

[erronis]

30. That's what was tried by the western countries during WW-I and II. WW-I led to

the economic/social deprivations that fostered WW-II.

At least the west and the Marshall Plan in Europe and rebuilding in Japan were recognized as being vital for future stability.

The US pull-out from Vietnam was ameliorated since the Chinese really needed a stable state in the south.

Not sure how the Chinese and USSR will react to the defeat of the western (US) and rapid withdrawals. Probably with glee and gluttony.

[paleotn]

17. Soviets tried that. It didn't work either.

Mainly because there's just not much there to scorch.

[Aviation Pro]

15. History not your forte is it Bloated Tick?

Shut the fuck up, fuckstick.

[rurallib]

18. I note that Lee and Trump both were responsible for over 600,000 American deaths

must be some camraderie in that. few have done it.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. LOL LOL LOL PATHETIC! BOFFO CRAZYHEAD!

Let's just blend periods of history and ignore facts while we do it! If this were a board game it'd be called CLUELESS.

Robert E. Lee? Afghanistan's a foreign country! Don't we need WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR?

That TFG man is going round the bend!

[ZonkerHarris]

20. Better headline: Loser talks about another loser.

[Baked Potato]

23. What about your 4 years, General Pee ? nt

[iemanja]

25. Does he even know that Lee lost the war?

What a twit.

[NutmegYankee]

26. LOL, "except for Gettysburg".

No, the Union just found a better general who whooped his ass.

[RainCaster]

27. Lee died in 1870

DFT seems to have missed that.

[lame54]

28. Their next reenactment should be over there

[BlueIdaho]

29. That asshole told us he was smarter than all his generals

So what’s his excuse for losing the Afghan war?