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"We would have been a nuclear pile of ash long before now or enslaved under the most diabolical ISM's known to man!"

Again, you rely on clairvoyance to justify mass slaughter. Nuclear weapons were the result of a government program that sprung from a Red-Brown administration of FDR. The secrets to the bomb were then delivered to Stalin.

If the states had separated, there would have been no Spanish American War, which left the United States with obligations in the Pacific. There would have been no American entry into the First World War, thus the French and British would have sued for peace and the Hapsburg Empire and Kaiser Whilhelm would still have been in power.

With peace, the Germans would not have sent Lenin from Berlin to cause trouble and there would have been no Soviet revolution, and no Stalin. The 20th Century was the most brutal century in the history of man and your thought process, used to justify the state that unleashed the slaughter comes up with the simple explanation that 'things would have been much worse.'

I am not sure how anyone can look at the 100s of millions dead and make such a claim other than to rely on clairvoyance.

I offer only opinion and a view of history as to how things might have been, I am not in a position to justify any-thing regarding history...that would make me a judge of God himself.
Since Cain, men have always sought to justify murder and in the end evil is always controlled when it is turned against itself. If you want to compare the Civil War deaths as a kind of American Armenia...well that is your point of view.
I am looking at the final result of the civil war as having been like a forest fire that cleared away much of the tangled brush of slavery, outmoded state sovereignty, and injustice; allowing a new sense of federal unity with the blossoming of an economic and military colossus of which the world had never seen before.

Whether this a good thing or whether or not a counter balancing force will be brought into being to counter us as we wax more corrupt, God knows. Nations rise and fall at God's whim but I trust at the end of it all evil will be cut out of the hearts of men!