I would have to say that this post is the most in-depth and reasoned examination of the causes and results of the civil war that I have read in years.
It is for opinions like this that I pull up Freerepublic on a regular basis.
Kudos to the author.
That fact that this sort of reasoned analysis is so rare is depressing, and dangerous.
It’s in depth, and perhaps reasoned - but I think he is guilty of some fundamental flaws.
His “right to invade” analogy has a lot of problems. The Nazi analogy on right to invade is simply flawed.
He also assumes it was 100% pro slave versus 100% non slave. It was not. There were slaves who fought for the South and 3 states who fought for the union were slave owning states.
It’s outside the box, and I’ll give him credit. But he’s wrong on about half of what he said.