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Thursday, March 22, 2007

The Newspaper Generals of Robert E. Lee

I had heard this one before, but it's too good not to pass on:

"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers!

In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."

-Robert E. Lee, 1863

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