STOP HONORING LOSERS.

The Independent Institute's Samuel R. Staley would not object to renaming military bases named for Confederate generals.

Of the current bases bearing the names of confederate officers, eight had undistinguished and occasionally exceptionally poor military records. In fact, three—Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, and Leonidas Polk—could even be rated incompetent. Others, such as John Bell Hood, were know for being reckless and ineffective, particularly later in the war. The others, excepting Lee and Georgia’s John Brown Gordon, have mixed records according to historians.

I'm prepared to debate people about Lee's record.

The history of those base renamings is itself fraught: perhaps it was an attempt at national reconciliation; perhaps it was a sop to the eugenics lobby of the end of the nineteenth century.