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Actually, the South has won the battle of history.  "The Birth Of the Nation" and "Gone With the Wind" sealed the deal.  True, it's not popularly called the War of Northern Aggression, but for generations the cause of the war -- the continuation and geographic expansion of slavery -- was obscured by arguments about states rights.  Just this past week our President made statements minimizing the importance of slavery in the conflict.  To this day there are more U.S. military bases named after confederate leaders than Northern generals.

Genghis Khan is generally considered the worst mass killer in history, but Caesar's Gaul campaigns probably put him over the 1 million killed milestone.  I don't know for a fact, but as a percentage of the population that may actually put him "ahead" of the big league 20th century tyrants.

How come Emperor Hirohito gets a pass.  Military deaths, war crimes and starvation in the Pacific/SE Asia war area approach 10 million and that doesn't include their actions in China.

Let’s not forget Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

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I did not say he gets a pass, I said "from a theological view " .

A well known prophet said "Love thy Enemy " .
He didn’t say it to help your enemy , but to tell you that in the long run, aka infinity, what your enemy does is on him, what you do is on you .
Same reasoning behind another well known saying of his, "turn the other cheek " .
Most of the 30-40 thousand kids that died in Hiroshima never were in the Army .
Not to mention every honest historian knows A-bomb was dropped to show Russia we had one after they defeated  Hitler and started to invade Japan .
Japan had peace feelers out at the time .

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THE reason most post are named after Confederate Generals is because 
   West Point Generals named the posts and made the point that being a West Pointer tops everything including being a traitor to your country.
Civil war is still in process .

The 200,000 civilians (many of whom were women and children) that were slaughtered by the Japanese in the Rape of Nan King in 1937 were not in the army either. If the USA didn't drop the bomb and had to invade Japan a whole lot more than 40,000 children would have died. The estimate was close to a million US and 7 to 8 million Japanese casualties. Many of them would have been innocent women and children. At the end of WWII the Soviets had the biggest and most powerful army in the world. There was nothing stopping them from driving the Americans and the Brits out of Western Europe. It could have been another Dunkirk only on a much bigger scale and with much worse results. The only reason that Stalin didn't go any farther was because he knew we had the bomb and that we would use it on every major city in the USSR. While the bomb took about 200,000 lives it saved potentially millions. Both the Germans and the Japanese were both working on the bomb. If either one of them would gotten there first they would have used it.