Jackson the Southern Wasp religious fanatic that he was apparently considered himself to be the Lord's vehicle for the CSA in the Civil War. A lot of the CSA generals and troops were OTT religious as all hell which illustrates a lot too. That is, they were extreme and self righteous -- hell bent intolerant.
Here the thread and topic are your vehicle for your calculated and determined purposes as an ex military guy who has both a bent and an axe to grind, and then some. Another thread and topic is another vehicle for it, whatever the thread and topic. Methinks also that in the very recent weeks you've acquired a new approach that, while it is only tentative, is more than evident, as we see in the post. It's long overdue as your postings have always been in a dire need of competent debate counselling, supervision, direction. In a word, respectability. A respectability of which you alone are incapable.
Jackson meanwhile had acquired disabilities that disqualified him from command -- several disabilities in fact. Multiple disabilities indeed. Most severely, Jackson slept chronically, thereby rendering his multiple thousands of veteran troops idle while thousands of Confederate troops died unnecessarily and objectives became more burdensome to attain. Seven Days Battles illustrated the fact and the cost unacceptably. It put a spotlight on the fact Jackson had become erratic, undependable, unreliable. A negative to the cause, lost as it was anyway.
Yet there either wasn't any protocol to remove the disabled and haphazard Jackson from his high command, or, given Jackson's political and military stature and clout, lesser subordinates taking any such route of relief was apparently deemed impractical (if not disruptive of military discipline and good order in wartime). So Jackson RIP given the impervious, haughty and self doomed incompetent that he'd become. Jackson is a lesson of how honorable and meritorious military service can take ironic twists and end up going south. Or west. Or wherever.
