Impressive and passionate article. Please keep posting Brecher's war nerd articles. I like the way Brecher contextualizes his arguments by showing how Sherman saw them: Note: the commentators on the original NYT article that Brecher is demolishing say much the same thing as Brecher here, but without the indignation.From way before the war, when Sherman was a professor at a military academy in Louisiana, his attitude toward the South’s Planter culture was like a fond uncle watching his idiot nephew stumbling into a fast car, planning to drive drunk into the nearest tree.
The best thing about Brecher is his eloquent, erudite indignation. The worst thing about Brecher is he's John Dolan's sockpuppet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolan_(writer) I'd like him a lot better if he didn't pretend to be someone who teaches English in Kuwait, instead of being someone who taught English in Kurdistan.