John Kelly: US Civil War Caused by 'Lack of Compromise'
- 5 years ago
John F. Kelly’s suggestion that "compromise” could have stopped the Civil War touched off an angry debate on Tuesday about the meaning of the conflict that served as the latest reminder that the 1860s was not the only time of political polarization in the country’s history.
Mr. Kelly, the White House chief of staff and a retired general who seems to moving from the role of quiet backstage manager to open partisan, told Laura Ingraham of the Fox News Channel on Monday night that “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man” who had prioritized his loyalty to Virginia over fealty to the country.
“It was always loyalty to state first back in those days,” Mr. Kelly said, when asked about the decision by a church congregation in Virginia to remove memorials honoring George Washington and Lee, commanding general of the rebel Army of Northern Virginia.
“Now it’s different today,” he said. “But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/john-kelly-civil-war-compromise.html
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Mr. Kelly, the White House chief of staff and a retired general who seems to moving from the role of quiet backstage manager to open partisan, told Laura Ingraham of the Fox News Channel on Monday night that “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man” who had prioritized his loyalty to Virginia over fealty to the country.
“It was always loyalty to state first back in those days,” Mr. Kelly said, when asked about the decision by a church congregation in Virginia to remove memorials honoring George Washington and Lee, commanding general of the rebel Army of Northern Virginia.
“Now it’s different today,” he said. “But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/john-kelly-civil-war-compromise.html
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