Re: america
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:05:29 -0500 (EST)
The parallels you drew between WW2 and the current situation are
interesting. I wonder if the Kosovans were to suddenly cease aggressive
activities but demand an independent state if anyone would resist them
(at least, the UN and Nato, that is)?
As far as Abe Lincoln goes, there is that sticky slavery issue to contend
with. Course, if you have no problem with that.... :)
And let me throw in some sticky details. Slavery had been pretty well
defeated prior to the South seceeding from the US. The Missouri
Compromise had limited legal slavery to the states that already had it.
That means the Southern States, the slave states, would comprise an ever
diminishing minority and slavery as an institution was doomed to being
voted out. So for the South to keep the institution of slavery, it would
have to seceed from the nation.
The American Civil war had more American casualities than all other wars
combined, to date. Or something pretty close to that. We did wrong and
we paid the price...and if you want to know the truth, we're still paying
the price. I'd hate to think what would happen if Lincoln had chosen
otherwise...
Course, if slavery and genocide don't bother you, then I guess the
discussion is moot :)
Jim
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:32:20 +0100 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
>
> In The Times (London)today, one of our columnists
> makes the point that the Serbs' 'sin' has been to resist
> the secession - by the Kosovans - from a unitary state
> recognised as such by the rest of the world. When,
> like Clinton & Blair in identical circumstances, Hitler
> marched into the Sudetenland to rescue another imperilled
> minority (the local German speaking population) he was
> identified as a war criminal. And to prevent another,
> similar secession, Abraham Lincoln was willing to kill
> many, many thousands of his fellow countrymen.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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