US Army open to considering removal of Confederate leaders' names from bases

[JonLP24]

(CNN)US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are said to be open to holding a "bipartisan conversation" about renaming nearly a dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders, according to an Army official.

The official said that though McCarthy believes he has the potential authority to unilaterally rename the installations, there would need to be consultation with the White House, Congress and state and local governments.

In a statement Monday, the Army confirmed that McCarthy and Esper are "open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic" but added that "each Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a significant place in our military history."

"Accordingly, the historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies," the statement said.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/08/politics/us-army-considering-renaming-bases/index.html

[demosincebirth]

1. How about town names?

[Retrograde]

7. Ft. Bragg, CA was named in the 1850s

well before Bragg turned traitor.

[demosincebirth]

11. Regardless, he was a traitor

[PJMcK]

2. Good, it's about time

To glorify the leaders of a treasonous attempt to destroy the United States makes no sense at all!

The statues, the schools and forts that are named after these traitors and any other iconography of the Confederacy is antithetical to the principles of our country. And that stupid flag is the sign of losers and traitors! Why in the world would anyone fly it?

None of that shit should ever have happened and it's another reason-- among many-- why we're still dealing with the same old racial conflicts.

[Initech]

3. How is the confederacy still a thing?

[dflprincess]

4. Why would a U.S. military base be named after a traitor?

I don't understand what there is to "consider".

[struggle4progress]

5. +

[Captain_New_York]

6. Ft Bragg

I never understood why one of our most important army installation is named after this guy who not only was a traitor but incompetent general. Go figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg

[GulfCoast66]

8. Fort Hood is the most egregious.

Not only a traitor like the others, but the shittiest General to ever command an Army in North America. Or in the western world.

If people insist on naming forts after seditionist, at least pick on that did not send their entire army to be slaughtered.

[keithbvadu2]

9. What if Commander in Chief rejects the idea?

What if Commander in Chief rejects the idea?

Haven't heard him say anything about the Marines new policy on Confederate symbols.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Just do it!