"Editors and Generals....."


"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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I am getting that "Deja Vu all over again" feeling. Something about failing to learn the lesson of history and being doomed. Could it be that most of our ills today are imposed by the press?