[BroJoeK]

cowboyway quoting Napolitano (2006): " The Providence Daily Post also wrote, 'Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to inaugurate civil war without appearing in the character of an aggressor.' "

And, by that same logic, some have accused President Roosevelt of attacking the Japanese and launching WWII at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
How? Analogous to Lincoln, FDR was also warned that moving the US fleet to Pearl Harbor could provoke a Japanese attack, and yet Roosevelt did it anyway.
Is FDR therefore responsible for WWII?
No, the decision for starting war in 1941 belonged strictly to the Japanese, just as in 1861 it belonged to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

I have not read Napolitano's book, doubtless it's brilliant in overall analysis, and possibly even misrepresented in your quotes here.
But regardless, the historical fact remains that Jefferson Davis made the foolish decision to start war against the United States.
Yes, Lincoln accepted the Confederacy's war, but certainly did not start it.

[rockrr]

If the book is anything like the myopic mess at pokie’s link then it isn’t worth wasting time on.

[cowboyway]

No, the decision for starting war in 1941 belonged strictly to the Japanese

Why don't you take that leap that most of you libtards take and compare the Confederacy with Nazi Germany.

and possibly even misrepresented in your quotes here.

There was a link in my post. (Unlike you, I don't copy from others and post here pretending that it's my own writing.) You can read the entire passage. You can buy the book. Ain't gonna change what I posted which is that honest people in lincoln's time and honest people today recognize that disHonest Abe was a tyrant and a war criminal.

You dung pile is growing to Biblical proportions.