On banning the Confederate Flag and Renaming Military Bases

[Airstrip One]

I didn’t say they were. I said that they believed that with some justification.

Agree with the first part. Just thought I would debunk the second part that there was any justification, considering that Stevens clearly was distancing the cause from the Founding Fathers.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

It is outside my realm of knowledge, but I presume Britain and France considered recognizing CSA for economic and geopolitical reasons. Not because they felt kinship with a chattel slavery economic system. Every nation on the planet in 1861 was primarily agrarian. But the chattel slave economy of the south was at at level of cruelty not seen anywhere else in Europe or North America. Serfdom was outlawed everywhere in Europe prior to the outbreak of the civil war, and even then, the average Russian serf was not the victim of the wanton cruelty American chattel slaves endured.

And that is why I maintain the chattel slavery of the American South in 1861 really was in a league by itself and had no analog anywhere else in Europe or North America

Western Europe and North America I would agree with you. The rest of the world, no.

 

[LV426]

Military Bases named for Congressional Medal of Honor recipients makes the most sense to me.