Shoulda Listened to Sherman

The General Sherman of "Burn everything from Atlanta to the sea."  That Sherman.

Wonkette commenters, regarding the threat of modern secession:

Angry_Cop

Easy with one enormous no-so-easy caveat - they cannot be allowed to have any federal military assets and that most especially includes nukes.

Read Sherman's autobiography this weekend, interesting. He literally could not imagine any future, under any circumstances, where the Southern states got their rights back. No local legislatures, no Congressional representation, no right to vote, no military bases and assets. That last concerned him enough that he wrote about it at some length. His vision was that they would remain military-governed territories, for eternity.

• Blank Ron replied:
  
  
  

  Somewhere in the afterlife he's shaking his fist down at us and yelling, 'I TOLD YOU SO, BY THUNDER!'

  Sherman knew what kind of motherfuckers we would still be dealing with 150 years later.