LRB this is in the above. You tell me how the reference is not to Sherman. Sherman was successful, but at a price:
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In August 1864 there was a widespread belief in the North that the Civil War could not be won. President Abraham Lincoln believed that the war stalemate and the terrible casualties could lead to the election of his opponent, George McClellan, who might repudiate the Emancipation Proclamation and sue for peace on the basis of the status quo ante--a free North, a slave South.
But Lincoln pressed forward. He argued that "no attempt at negotiation with the insurgent leader could result in any good. . . . He affords us no excuse to deceive ourselves. . . . Between him and us the issue
is distinct, simple and inflexible. It is an issue which can only be tried by war, and decided by victory."
Then Atlanta fell to Union troops in the late summer of 1864. Lincoln was reelected, with 80 percent of the soldier vote. Shortly thereafter came the 13th Amendment, the abolition of slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and the beginning of a long process of Reconstruction. Lincoln's war aims were ultimately realized.
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The article clearly supports an aggressive action immediately against the armed groups. Many of these groups are in the urban areas, meaning lotsa damage to cities. Leaving the people's livelihood intact is a good way to make friends. I don't want more destruction of the cities, we neeed to be building.
Shouldn't the Iraqis police themselves? After all, june 30 isn't very far away.