Not really. That analysis proves nor solves nothing. One could as easily say, "Stalin was tough enough and smart enough to win his war. Hitler wasn't."
Not even close. Whatever one's feelings about Lincoln, it cannot be denied that he was a brilliant manager of people, putting his own ego in abeyance while patiently tolerating the pettiness of a McClellan or the outright hostility of a Stanton.
Not that such forbearance should ever be confused with weakness, Lincoln did not hesitate to remove those he felt to be incompetent or otherwise insufficient from command.
A pity for the South that Jeff Davis possessed few of those talents, his misplaced loyalty to the incompetent Bragg in particular being a prime miscalculation.
Birdwatcher
birdy, i am still laughing about you putting the word english, and the word morality, in the same paragraph.
