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Please Define "Civil War"
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are you saying civil war is necessarily a failure? By that logic, the emancipation proclamation was a failure.
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I wasn't saying anything, I was asking for an explanation.
I find the assertion that a civil war is necessary for democracy to be a little odd. OK, a lot odd. That doesn't preclude some sort of good outcome somewhere down the road, but I don't think civil war is helpful per se.
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