[rustbucket]

And I suppose in your opinion, in 1941 FDR invoked the way of the bullet, and millions of soldiers paid the ultimate price. If FDR had been a man of peace, he wouldn't have let a little think like an armed attack on a U.S. facility lead to war. But he wasn't, and he didn't.

Intentionally tweak the nose of a bull, and it becomes the bull's fault when he charges you? Lincoln knew he was provoking war by sending an armed force to South Carolina.

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Lincoln knew he was provoking war by sending an armed force to South Carolina.

and South Carolina wasn't provoking anyone by surrounding 50 US troops with thousands of armed men?

[Non-Sequitur]

Intentionally tweak the nose of a bull, and it becomes the bull's fault when he charges you? Lincoln knew he was provoking war by sending an armed force to South Carolina.

And FDR didn't tweak anyone's nose by embargoing goods to Japan? But I digress.

Lincoln made his reasons clear. The garrison in Sumter was short of supplies. His choice was to either resupply them or allow them to be starved into submission. He had letters delivered to the governor of South Carolina that if the ships were not opposed then only supplies would be landed. The south had the chance to continue the status quo in the hopes that a peaceful solution could be found. They weren't interested.