[spacecowboynj]

Now again, you are the president, and Castro is starving the Marines out of GTMO. What do you do?

Well, if I promised I wouldn't invade in my inaugural address, if my commanders told me to abandown the fort, and if my cabinet and popular opinion told me likewise, I would relinquish the fort! Simple as that!

And you're being disingenuous. The Confederacy was not "starving" anyone. The Union occupied the fort (after abandoning virtually all others) on their soil and Lincoln was not sending bread, he was sending battleships.

Lincoln's top military commander, General Winfield Scott, told him to abandon Ft Sumter for crying out loud!

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...and Lincoln was not sending bread, he was sending battleships.

One... there was no such thing as a battleship in 1861. Two, Lincoln, unlike President Buchanan who 4 months earlier attempted to resupply Sumter in secret, only to have the ships fired on, wrote to the Governor of South Carolina and informed him he intended to send supplies only and if allowed to deliver them in peace, would take no military action, but that the ships delivering that food reserved the right to defend themselves if attacked.

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Scott was thinking militarily that the Fort could no possible be reinforced or defended from land attack. Lincoln had to think on a higher level and surrender would only legitimize the Rebellion. Now what was Jeff Davis thinking when he gave the order to open fire?

And I find it very interesting that as CiC you would cave in to Castro so easily. Are you really Jimmy Carter?