>>>>>>>Sure glad you all found an interesting discussion point.
>>>>>>>PC gone overboard.
>>>>>>>Just imagine we started tearing down statues. We'd never see the end of it as we have a somewhat longer history than the US.
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>>>>>>Ok - so how many statues of Leon Degrelle in Belgium are there?
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>>>>>Try Leopold I.
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>>>>But he wasn't a traitor like Degrelle was he?
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>>>Maybe he meant Leopold II. Even by the already low standards of colonialism his Belgian empire in the Congo was a shocker.
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>>Ok - well my point was that Belgium is not going to build statues and monuments to someone like Leon Degrelle because he was a traitor - ...like why on earth would anyone want to do that? ..which is why it's so strange (and stupid) that we would have statues and monuments to a traitor like Lee here. He is not some founding father or great American patriot - as matter of fact he's the exact opposite and represents the south's desire to keep slavery. He was the leader of the army for the other side! arrrg!
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>You're looking with twenty first eyes at nineteenth century events. As far as I know Lee was the most competent general of that war.

If he was the most competent general of the war then he would of won the war (or surrendered sooner than he did)