08-23-2016, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2016, 01:28 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(08-23-2016, 12:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The Civil War was the result of a political election. World War II was the result of failed diplomacy. The Revolutionary War was a result of a government that did not recognize the rights of Americans. Can history repeat itself, you better believe that it can.
From my perspective, prior the things going full out 4T military there is a period featuring escalating spirals of rhetoric and violence. You have precursors such as the Boston Massacre, Bleeding Kansas and the Spanish Civil War. In theory, the violence can be avoided through various means as you suggest above. In practice, partisans get so focused in on manifesting their own values and world views that compromise is at best difficult, and is often given 20 20 hindsight viewed as impossible. As a wise man once put it...
Second Inaugural of Abe Lincoln Wrote:On the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
I'm much in that place. I would depreciate war, but recognize that all too often war comes.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.