[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem to DoodleDawg: "What Lincoln needed was the predicted crisis - real or imagined. And his navy found that crisis in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
I meant to say the Fort Sumter Incident."

The better analogy is Pearl Harbor, since both Pearl Harbor and Fort Sumter aroused Americans in the conviction that war was the only answer.
And both events were the deliberate choice of the military power which attacked the United States.

[DiogenesLamp]

The better analogy is Pearl Harbor, since both Pearl Harbor and Fort Sumter aroused Americans in the conviction that war was the only answer. And both events were the deliberate choice of the military power which attacked the United States.

This is one of your oft repeated loony toon ideas.

I've recently devised a different method for illustrating this sort of absurdity.

This:

Versus this: