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The Confederate states were traitors just like the Founding fathers/ 13 colonies were traitors…
What a waste. All be because we did not allow an election that Ho probably would of won
YES HE DID!
There were 6 Virginian born Colonels in the US Army in 1861. Only one broke his sacred Oath to protect and defend the United States. It was the traitor Robert Lee.
While I would argue the older confederates were traitors even if unpunished in the name of national reconciliation and to avoid a martyrdom cult forming around them I will make an exception for younger fighters. A 16 year old joining to fight cannot and should not be held liable for his actions no matter how egregious. So those teenage fighters I give them a pass. They were young and knew little about the world. All they knew was that you had a war on and anyone who could handle a musket was desired. Teen fighters are good because they often fight with tenacity and suicidal determination. They're not good in the finer points of life or military strategy though. Alexander the Great is a notable exception since he was fully capable of leading armies as a boy.
Of course he was treasonous. There is no argument.
God bless Dr Robertson and God Bless Gen Lee.
thank you so much for leaving yt comments on for these lectures!! i love reading them. this professor rules by the way.
Gee, let’s think about this. An officer in the United States Army, submits his resignation, to lead an enemy force against the United States in order to destroy the country? Yeah, I might call that treason!
When people say "From sea to shining sea" all I hear is "Kill the Natives, take their land". It's hard to hear him talk so well about Lee and slavery, then say a phrase that's basically code for "let's commit genocide" that we teach our children everyday.
Yes Lee was a traitor.
Everyone fighting for the south was a traitor and committed treason.
Loved this lecture. Also found more writers which I do not recall hearing of. The views were enlightening as well.
A good analysis.I would like educators to remember Frances Trollope and indeed Trollope himself who focussed on the intellectual and political thinking and mores of the times.Frances Trollope's travels around America in Victorian times highlight how the English had an unparalleled grasp of of their times,which Americans seemed hostile to. READ HER!
I didn’t know Mitch McConnell taught history
which page and edition were you reading from David coperfield?
you are an erudite lecturer.
This lecturer is the embodiment of snark! A horrible speaker and worse, totally void of real content. The truth is, under Nixon, the U.S. did in fact win the Vietnam War, much along the same model as South Korea. After THE DEMS overthrew Nixon, using law-fare, the Watergate soft coup, the Democrat controlled Congress refused to honor the terms of the peace treaty Nixon had negotiated to end the war. They cut off all arms supplies to both South Vietnam and Cambodia (which was part of the peace treaty). This practically invited the communists to resume the war, knowing that THE DEMS had stripped South Vietnam of all its defensive capabilities(they did not even have bullets), opening the door to a typical communist blood bath and the infamous Killing Fields. No wonder American students know nothing of history, listening to such lazy, incompetent “professors”.
Sorry, Professor. The North Vietnamese admitted that they did attack that ship in the Golf of Tonkin. Get your history right.
There was 2 alleged attacks. One never happened, and the other was in retaliation to US military operations in the area
We need a gigantic statue of Sherman - in Atlanta!
YES he did TREASON
What took so long to arrive at the realisation that the USA failed in Viet Nam?
Absolutely was a Traitor!
48:52 "in the united states the media impact on the war was negligible" - this guy really doesnt know what hes talking about.
It’s a great conversation with these two brilliant ladies Susanne Craig and Rachel Abrams. Congratulations!
The North Vietnamese elite drew from millenia of SE Asian military strategies.
Our intelligence was so poor we didn’t even realize Ho Chi Min wasn’t even in power in 1964 in many ways but because the experts in the state department were purged by Joe McCarthy
Wind bag...either ignorant...or a willingly party to the lie ....the Jesuits orchestrated the entire civil war for their ends
Amazing how a non lawyer making subtle legal arguments, which franky he has no abilty to make, is being praised.
“The doctrines and miracles of our Savior have required nearly 2000 years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.” -General Robert E. Lee
I am glad to see africans students in this amazing community
Vietnam or "American" war as they called it was never going to see an independent South Vietnam. The Americans where incredibly ignorant of the regions history. Tremendous and avoidable mistake that cost millions of lives. Failure was preordained.
Very good presentation. Unfortunately it shows why so many people have little respect for our legal system which consists of lawyers parsing language with their unique theories decided by other lawyers and force the rest of us to have to live with their theories.
Why do you think owening another man is alrite
Unbelievable.
Did Lee commit treason? If he didn't then the word is meaningless. He violated his oath to protect this country and then led armies that killed tens of thousands of patriotic Americans.
Don’t forget that those who opposed the war were called unpatriotic, anti-American and communist sympathizers. They were long-haired patriots.
Do you think those protesting American military aid to Ukraine are Patriots? What about those protesting American military aid to Israel?
Very interesting!
I completed the Special Forces Officer's Course in 1975. The speaker for my graduation was Col. Aaron Bank, the father of US Special Forces. Seeing all the Combat Infantryman Badges in the audience (we were in a classroom), he said, "Guys, I hate to tell you this, but you deserve to know. I knew Ho Chi Minh personally and we could have worked with him. He was more nationalist than Communist. Vietnam didn't need to happen. I wrote to President Truman that the US should support Vietnamese independence instead of the return of French colonialism. He didn't listen."
Strange this guy looks like Mitch McConnell or his brother. What he fails to mention is the opinion of those who were affected. For example, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, no lackey of the US, who stated that the Vietnam war gave the governments of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and in greater expanse India time to deal with their internal communist forces and win freedom. The lecture also fails to mention the treachery, some say treason, if Johnson, McNamara, and Rusk for giving combat plans (especially air) to the North Vietnamese. Often explained to keel the Chinese out of the war, and to keep Russia and China at each other’s throats. For my service brothers (USAF and USN avaiation 1972-1980), there was no expressed strategy to win or what the outcome was to be. If politicians and diplomats fail in their jobs, war is the outcome. If our military is expected to solve the problem, there can only be one outcome - total and unconditional surrender. WWII taught us that. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and every incident after WWII has been a failure and our services have paid the price in wasted blood. If we don’t intend to win and unconditionally, don’t get involved. But the world will be a much lesser and more brutal and violent place. We can never forget what was said by a victor in Vietnam; Pol Pot who said “To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you no loss”. The world is filled with Pol Pots and it is our politicians and diplomats who fail to deal with them properly.
republicans think Stallone is the actual war hero. john mccain is a pussy yada yada . eff that .
Well, when you can building on anything that means, you should know how to tear downed, don't you think?
The revolution was a mistake as it destroyed European France. It created wars and colonialism that has shaped modern France in a wrong way.
I can't believe that Vietnam is learning with talented people has influenced his experience of the war.
I made it 24 minutes. No offense is taken here. But this man is shockingly ignorant of Civil War history for an educated Southerner. So far, he's done nothing but toe the line of the current, wildly dishonest and inaccurate, historical narrative.
This man, as a Lincoln admirer, gives a surprisingly balanced and fair summation of Lee's actions and the circumstances of the era. For this, he deserves credit. I find one logical flaw with his argument, asserting that by definition, Lee committed treason. Though the speaker understands the fact that state vs. national citizenship obligations were far from settled at the beginning of the Civil War. Despite this, he accuses Lee, by definition of treason. How can such a verdict be reached when the term's definition was unsettled? Perhaps he felt compelled to give a definite yes or no answer, so he had to come down somewhere. But which definition of treason is he using? The unsettled, debated, and ill-defined definition of 1861? Or the settled-by-military-force understanding of 1865? But, once again to his credit, he finishes the speech by saying no historian is qualified to settle the issue. To the speaker, well done, sir.
Lee had FARTS with more honor,character, and military genius than ANY would be detractor who dares to defame him at the sacred place of his burial !!
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Wonderful!
Wow,lots of opinions,shoddy reasearch though. I recoment flights of the mind by Nicolls if you want some insights actually based on good reasearch.