[Ohioan]

The United States are & were a Federation--a Federation of countries, if you will. Personally, I can conceive of no basis for Lee to have made any other choice that the one he made. There could have been no conceivable moral justification for his waging war on his own homeland.

Would you seek to justify any American military officer--northern or southern, supporting a UN war against any American State? I cannot! There is no way the Quisling rationalization could ever be acceptable.

Quisling Personality

[wardaddy]

Nice work

I’d never read that one

[rockrr]

Personally, I can conceive of no basis for Lee to have made any other choice that the one he made.

Of course you can't.

There could have been no conceivable moral justification for his waging war on his own homeland.

In the same way that the police have to struggle with "no conceivable moral justification" for performing their duties? And who is to say that he would have to wage war on his own homeland? Do you conclude that George Washington waged war on his own homeland during the Whiskey Rebellion?

Would you seek to justify any American military officer--northern or southern, supporting a UN war against any American State?

No. Why do you ask?