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Sherman was one of America's brainiest and best generals, the Petraeus of the nineteenth century. As he approached retirement after a long career which included commanding the Civil War's Union Army of the West, the most formidable ever seen in the Americas, he wrote:
And here I will record of Washington that I saw it...grow from a straggling, ill-paved city, to one of the cleanest, most beautiful, and attractive cities of the whole world. [Sherman had traveled in Mexico, Europe, and the Ottoman Empire.] Its climate is salubrious, with as much sunshine as any city of America. The country immediately about it is naturally beautiful and romantic...though the soil be poor as compared with that of my present home, it is susceptible of improvement and embellishment. The social advantages cannot be surpassed even in London, Paris, or Vienna; and among the resident population, the members of the Supreme Court, the Senate, House of Representatives, army, navy, and the several executive departments, may be found an intellectual class one cannot encounter in our commercial and manufacturing cities...Yet it is the usual and proper center of political intrigue, from which the army especially should keep aloof, because the army must be true and faithful to the powers that be, and not be subjected to a temptation to favor one or other of the great parties into which our people have divided, and will continue to divide, it may be, with advantage to the whole.
There should be no doubt what Sherman, destroyer of the Confederacy, would have to say to the apologizers of Pakistan's Army who claim military rule preferable to that of divided elected officials.
Sherman was one of America's brainiest and best generals, the Petraeus of the nineteenth century. As he approached retirement after a long career which included commanding the Civil War's Union Army of the West, the most formidable ever seen in the Americas, he wrote:
And here I will record of Washington that I saw it...grow from a straggling, ill-paved city, to one of the cleanest, most beautiful, and attractive cities of the whole world. [Sherman had traveled in Mexico, Europe, and the Ottoman Empire.] Its climate is salubrious, with as much sunshine as any city of America. The country immediately about it is naturally beautiful and romantic...though the soil be poor as compared with that of my present home, it is susceptible of improvement and embellishment. The social advantages cannot be surpassed even in London, Paris, or Vienna; and among the resident population, the members of the Supreme Court, the Senate, House of Representatives, army, navy, and the several executive departments, may be found an intellectual class one cannot encounter in our commercial and manufacturing cities...Yet it is the usual and proper center of political intrigue, from which the army especially should keep aloof, because the army must be true and faithful to the powers that be, and not be subjected to a temptation to favor one or other of the great parties into which our people have divided, and will continue to divide, it may be, with advantage to the whole.
There should be no doubt what Sherman, destroyer of the Confederacy, would have to say to the apologizers of Pakistan's Army who claim military rule preferable to that of divided elected officials.
