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Paul Krugman’s’Civil War' Fantasies

- Tom DiLorenzo -

I guess DiLorenzo is a closet Southerner who lounges in his basement sipping Old Crow and listening to Dixie. Where he gets his facts about the Civil War is anybody's guess -- but at least not from reality. Both sides committed frontal charges early in the war before the idea of entrenching took hold. If anything it was the South that continuted that man-killing action. Lee at Gettysburg, ordering Pickett's Charge, threw thousands of lives away; Rebel General Hood lost more men at the Battle of Franklin that Grant at Cold Harbor.

As for cruetly, the South with its Andersonville and Fort Pillow Massacre stands second to none. Rebel General Nathan Bedford Forrest was known to murder surrendering Union Troops. Mass rape by Northern Troops? Only in DiLorenzo's imagination. Sherman waged war against civilian property to deny support for southern armies: it was not his policy to murder civilians.

Strangely, DiLorenzo does not mention the cruelty imposed by those southerners on the thousands of slaves under their lashes. I guess he takes the lyrics of Dixie seriously "....look away, look away, look away Dixieland..."

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Début de l'article :When James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 the first thing he said at his George Mason University press conference was that the award "does not make me an instant expert in everything." Buchanan was well aware – and amused – at how previous recipients of the award had made fools of themselves by viewing the award as a license to pontificate about anything and everything, whether they knew anything about the subject or not... Lire la suite

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