Cockburn on Slavery

[Henry C.K. Liu]

No war in history should have been fought.
Yet they were fought.
Slavery was only a pretext for the Civil War, just as defending democracy
was a pretext for the Second World War.
One perverse effect of war is that, with some exceptions, war tends to
weaken both opposing camps to allow new forces to emerge in the aftermath,
albeit at high cost.
The First World War destroyed the contesting monarchies, the Second War
World destroyed Western Political Imperialism.
The exceptions are the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
I am not sure what these wars accomplish, except delimits American hegemony.

Henry C.K. Liu

Carl Remick wrote:


> Re Gar's:  "I think this topic shows how far neo-confederate propaganda
> has
> penetrated popular thought."
>
> In questioning whether the Civil War should have been fought, I appear
> to be at risk of being seen as an apologist for the Confederacy.  I
> assure you I am not.  Slavery is far and away the greatest crime that
> has ever been committed in this nation.  If I were  running the U.S., I
> would not only bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial but would also obliterate
> every Confederate monument as being a testimonial to an utterly immoral
> cause.  I simply think that the Civil War, like all wars, had intensely
> negative effects that weigh heavily against the good that was achieved.
>
> Carl Remick