What John Kelly could learn about the Civil War from another general

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As I write this, the Internet is still going wild over former Marine general John Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, calling former Army general Robert E. Lee “a honorable man” on Monday.

Kelly added, “He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good fai...