[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

[SA]

Doug Henwood wrote:


> A civil war isn't really an imperialist adventure. The U.S. was one 
> country when the south seceded, and it became one country once again 
> after 1865. That's not much like bombing Afghanistan.

But the point is that for the majority of the South's population, it 
wasn't one country. It was one group of states attacking another group 
of states. It was only called a Civil War in the North.

SA