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Please Define "Civil War"
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Of course not. Ideally the South would have capitulated at the outset, rather than after four years. But the same could be said about the loser in any war.
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Some wars might have gone other ways.
eta: What if Grant had been drinking at Appomattox?
But that's besides sgtclub's point. He seems to think that a civil war was a necessary good.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 09-01-2006 at 05:18 PM..
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