I was so hoping Birdwatcher would answer this for me.
What's the matter? The Constitution got you by the tongue?
Naah, I was waiting for you to answer the question....
Do you wish that this nation had divided in 1861?
You avoided that question and countered with another to the effect of do I think the ends justified the means....
Well, I gotta say, having walked the fields and hillsides where the dead lay in windrows a century and a half ago, I wish that the South had not been collectively stupid enough to pour most all their economic eggs into that one evil and divisive basket. Heck, since EVERYONE was talking secession for decades prior to the actual war, I might also wish that the South woulda had the collective smarts to develop their own industrial centers.
But yeah, out of respect for all of those brave young men, in this case I gotta believe the end justified the means.
Ok, for a third time?
Do you wish the South had won?
Birdwatcher
