Clearly, a man as great as Ike did not consider Robert E. Lee a traitor for his role in the Civil War.
That was my point in posting the clip......not really to go down the other rabbit holes of the war. Ike wasn't from the South either......but considered the greatest Americans to be "Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and Lee".
He probably thought that way because he understood Lee's role in patching the country back together and what a disaster it could have been had his attitude been to resist to the last man. That may not be the entire reason there are so many statues of Lee around but its why there needs to be.
