[HandyDandy]

The funny part is that you are laboring under the misapprehension that the North started the War. It was the South that began the fighting! Of course the South didn’t start the war “to free the slaves”. That’s a real knee-slapper!

[DiogenesLamp]

The funny part is that you are laboring under the misapprehension that the North started the War. It was the South that began the fighting!

In the manner that a bullied kid eventually gets tired of playing "Keep Away" with a bully, and ends up punching him.

To say the taunted kid "started it" is as childish as it is dishonest.