Of Confederate Statues And The Names Of Traitors

A simple question: Why are a number of U.S. army bases named after Confederate traitors?  (And rather incompetent ones at that?) Well:

"Three of the biggest bases in the United States are named after Confederate leaders, including some who were famously inept.

Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the headquarters of the Special Forces, bears the name of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a commander often assailed as one of the most bumbling commanders in the war. Bragg was relieved of command after losing the battle for Chattanooga in 1863, then served as a military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Fort Benning in Georgia, the home of Army infantry and airborne training, is named after Brig. Gen. Henry Benning, who led troops at Antietam and Gettysburg. In remarks in 1861 laying out slavery as the reason for secession, Benning warned that abolition would lead to 'black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that?'

Fort Hood in Texas is named after John Bell Hood, who resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to fight against it. His 'reckless' command hastened the fall of Atlanta, one historian wrote, and his losses at the Battle of Franklin were so disastrous that they have been called the 'Pickett’s Charge of the West,' in reference to Gen. Robert E. Lee’s failed charge at Gettysburg."

Thing is, I have a little history (ahem) with this issue.  Way back in 2013 I posted an article to Metafilter on this same issue.  Even blunter and from the New York Times, "Misplaced Honor" by Jamie Malanowski asked:

 "Now African-Americans make up about a fifth of the military. The idea that today we ask any of these soldiers to serve at a place named for a defender of a racist slavocracy is deplorable; the thought that today we ask any American soldier to serve at a base named for someone who killed United States Army troops is beyond absurd. Would we have a Fort Rommel? A Camp Cornwallis?"

(MF thread.)

Long story short, I ended up quitting Mefi over that thread.  IMO, obviously, the mods were insanely deferential to a few very shitty people making obviously racist arguments re: Lost Cause nonsense, and "not a Civil War but a War Between States" garbage.  I mean, straight up what your racist American history teacher might have taught you back in the 50's.  Hell, or even today.

I haven't looked back too much.  As much as I enjoyed Metafilter I probably spent way too much of my free time there.

Anyhow, glad to see that Confederate revisionism is dying before our very eyes with every torn-down statute, with every Black Lives Matter protester.  (I know I'm linking to master incompetent David Petraeus, but stopped clocks yadda yadda.)

America ain't havin' it any more, and that's a very good thing.  Re-name all the bases, and tear down all the statues that honor the leadership of the Confederacy.