On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> "I've no love lost for the Lost Cause, but the morality tale of the
> virtuous North is indispensable to the perpetuation of the American
> Empire. With the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln cynically transformed his
> war into a war against slavery no differently than Bush transformed
> the Iraq War in mid-course into a war to spread democracy. And if you
> believe that conscription is slavery, you must acknowledge that the
> heroic New York Draft Riots (really New York's War of Independence)
> was a greater revolt against slavery than any that took place in the
> South during the war."
>
> Curiously, this makes more sense than 95% of the commentary emanating
> from the left.
Just what's so sensible about this? Sounds like an attempt to recuperate the Lost Cause to me. States' rights, man!
Doug