Nobody Remembers Wars and General Lee

Nobody Remembers

Suffice it to say, the world seems to be falling apart before our eyes, and America is at her weakest. I’m having a hard time watching the news lately with so few uplifting stories, how about you?

I was reading about the Civil War tonight, and how obvious it was that the Union was sure to win it: Not just because slavery was an abomination, (because it was) but because of simple logistics.

The Confederate states had a population of 5,440,467 whites and 3,521,111 slaves. A million of the white men served and 300,000 were killed.

The Union had a population of 18,936,579 and another 2,589,533 on the border states: 429,401 then slaves of whom over 100,000 served in the Union army. During the war, nearly a million immigrants added an additional  400,000 fighters to the Union.

Clearly the South was outnumbered.

The Union economy was much stronger: The Union had more factory production, of iron, coal, firearms production, wheat, corn, textiles, merchant ship wealth,  farm acreage and livestock. The North ALSO had a Navy.

The South had…cotton.

Most wars are won and lost by one side running out of money. And the South had no gold or silver supplies, and was entirely dependent on its own paper money.

Some truths never change.

Today, we find out that the Clinton’s have given the new expanding Russia, the future control of the world’s uranium, which will go to Iran. Obama is flooding our country with illegal which weakens us even further. The politicians stopped taking about the debt because they don’t want us to know what’s coming.

The plutocracy that sits in Congress, does nothing as Obama takes dictatorial power.

And America…is broke: We can’t fight another war …Bush’s war was just too expensive.

The Iraq war has cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion so far and with interest could swell to more than $7 trillion.

And our leaders are beyond comprehension:

For example, when the U.S. invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, the country’s government owed Washington approximately $4 billion dollars — partially leftover from America’s “loans” during the Iran-Iraq War.

The debt was forgiven post-“liberation,” part of a concerted push of then-governor of the war Paul Bremer. He argued it would help “boost” the fledgling free market.

Yeah, they have us all thinking about the “election.”

Anyway…once upon a time, we had noble leaders…and I was reading about one of them tonight: General Robert E. Lee:

From A History of the American People:

General Lee, the state’s most distinguished soldier, had been asked by Lincoln to become commander-in-chief of the Union forces. This was a wise choice and would have been a splendid appointment, for Lee was decent, honorable, and sensible as well as skillful. But Lee was a Virginian before anything else and he waited to see what Virginia did. When Virginia seceded, he reluctantly resigned his commission in the US Army, which he had served for thirty-two years. It seems to us quixotic but he felt he had no other options. He wrote to his sister in Baltimore and his brother in Washington DC:

“With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.”..General Lee

I can only wonder one day, if some of us in America will have to make that same choice again.

How many of us are being asked to forget our traditions, our flag, our patriotism, our religion, our ancestors, our freedoms, and the very color of our own skin, in order to comply with the New World Order political correct FUBAR nation of Babylon chattering slaves that the elites have in mind for us?

And while our leaders are busy destroying America—- China, Russian, ISIS, are all building their armies.

And Obama plays basketball.

April 23, 2015 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | History, Uncategorized, War | History, War