“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.”

That is why it is such serious business.

honesty does not need many words to explain it's position.

A kind and gentle war cannot be won.

Sherman should know as that S.O.B. inflicted a load of cruelty on the South after the war was lost.

Sounds like Sherman was giving himself carte blanche to do as he pleased...

I was thinking precisely as J Carlton.

Peace is beautiful and it can always be refined. The force of beauty is infinite in it's refinement.

Sherman was Satan in a human form.