If, by appearing on Laura Ingraham’s show on Monday night, John F. Kelly was trying to do damage control after the indictments of Trump associates earlier in the day, it did not work.
Instead, Mr. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, resurrected the debate over Confederate monuments — previously fueled by his boss, President Trump, over the summer — and the Confederacy itself. He called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man who gave up his country to fight for his state,” said that “men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand,” and argued that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
The reaction was swift and unforgiving, with many commentators ridiculing Mr. Kelly for suggesting that slavery was an issue on which a compromise could or should have been reached. from the NYTimes.
Don’t talk about the Civil War --
You’ll only make the pundits sore.
Although we won it fair and square,
It still is cause for tearing hair.
Consensus on its background lacks
The full support of pesky hacks.
Historians cannot agree
How to handle Robby Lee.
Was he villain, was he saint?
A unifier he sure ain’t.
IF I were the White House staff,
I’d stay as silent as giraffe . . .
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