The US playing craps with its very existence as a sovereign national entity, risking its future and the lives of everyone here... to end slavery....after the Revolution to throw off the Monarchy, that is THE defining fact of the United States of America!!
If you don't comprehend THIS about America, you don't know America.... whether or not you live here, you MUST know this!
Example: I am sure I could not claim to in the least bit understand Russia or Russians if I was not aware of their Revolution!
Yet somehow Mr. Dylan and his friends think that the us IS slavery....NOT
No one thinks of serfdom when they think of Russia... they think of the bloody and monstrous revolution the Russians made (and all the subsequent suffering and destruction they've endured since) in order to remove the Czarist system. We credit them with THAT.
Why not have the decency to credit the US with the tremendous effort, sacrifice and near suicidal risk which Americans took to accomplish just such a noble task?
“The US playing craps with its very existence as a sovereign national entity, risking its future and the lives of everyone here... to end slavery.”
False statement. The US/Lincoln may have been playing craps to save the union, but they did NOT engage in war to free the slaves. If they had, Lincoln would have issued an emancipation proclamation on the first day of Sumter...and he would NOT have said:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
“Why not have the decency to credit the US with the tremendous effort, sacrifice and near suicidal risk which Americans took to accomplish just such a noble task? “
More like the “noble task” to preserve the cotton tarrif’s. LOL!!