[Non-Sequitur]

I guess if you can buy off on the premise that fighting fellow Americans who simply want their independence from FedGov™ is the moral equivalent of fighting barbaric religious terrorists, then the screed has some merit. IMO I cannot buy off on that premise therefore this whole thing is rubbish to me.

War, as Sherman noted, was the remedy those 'fellow Americans' chose to further their aims. Given a choice between surrendering to their aggression or fighting their war out to the end, Lincoln chose to fight.

[central_va]

So, I can put you down in the camp that thinks the South of 1861 is morally equivalent to the Talban? Gee, what a great guy you are, no wonder you have a Sherman blow up doll to go along with your Lincoln one.