Well, first off ditto, I said I don't know by what arrangement we have troops on Cuban soil. I have no clue, but I'll check it out since you seem to want to debate that. So calm down and back away gently from what you think I would or what not do, because even I don't know due to lack of details.
Secondly, who fired the first shots of the Civil War is pretty moot compared to who started it. Sorta like faulting Poland if they shot the first shots of WWII because Germany sent battleships and soldiers to a Polish fort.
The Civil War was started by Lincoln and his and the Republican Party's northern industrial interests. Lincoln said to hell with slavery, he didn't care about it and wouldn't do anything about it, but he was going to collect those tariffs.
Let me get this straight. You are saying that the South went to war because they didn't want tariffs. That all the slavery stuff they talked about for the previous 30 years, and terms like "Black Lincoln" and "Black Republicans," and the specific words in their secession resolutions about the threat to slavery by Lincoln, was just spin? Was it to fool ignorant dirt-poor mud sills who were scared stiff that 4 million slaves could be running free in the midst when it was really all about tariffs on items those poor people would never in their lives buy?
What a clever conspiracy. But then, one of the first acts of the Confederate Congress is to establish tariffs and not just on that expensive French and English stuff from across the ocean, but on plain everyday stuff from that farmer or forge or mill up the road and across the river that they never had to pay tariffs on before. Man, this makes my brain hurt it's so complex. It harder to follow than a Oliver Stone movie.
Believe your myths all you want, but the real story is far more interesting and inspiring than the Lost Cause crap you have bought into. It's a shame you choose to ignore it.