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The more I see the news the more I am convinced that there is going to be a civil war in this country for the simple reason that both sides want there to be one. The failure of the public schools to teach history has caused the current generation to be ignorant of the causes and costs of the last two times Americans have fought Americans. The Revolution was twelve years of brutal fighting where families were torn apart and the local economy devastated. There were very few on either side of the conflict in 1775 who thought the cost of the war in treasure or lives would be nearly so high as it was. If more than a very few had suspected the true cost it is likely that a settlement would have been reached between London and Philadelphia.

In 1861 both sides thought that the war would be short and relatively bloodless. This was testified to by the fact that the enlistments on both sides were for only 90 days. The North assumed that they would simply march "On to Richmond" and the war would be over. The Confederates thought that if they could shoot a few Yankees the rest of the blue coats would run home.

The Virginia department of transportation today complains that the commute times from Washington DC to Richmond are a nightmare because it can take up to three hours to cover the 110 mile distance. It took the North four long years and hundreds of thousands of lives before they were able to complete that trip. And despite piling the blue coats up like cord wood at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, The Wilderness and Cold Harbor the Yankees never stopped coming. Had the southern politicians have been able to see beforehand the ruins of Atlanta, Columbia and Richmond, would they have found it easier to find an acceptable compromise in 1860. But no one on either side suspected the cost so they found it easy to pull the first lanyard?

I see the same attitudes prevalent today that lead to the prior wars between Americans. The liberals have been driving back the conservatives so easily and for so long that they cannot accept the fact that the other side will ever stand and fight. What they fail to understand is that they have backed the conservatives into a corner. We can no longer retreat, and thus must throw all our remaining strength into a single desperate counter strike.

The conservatives look at the soft urban culture of the liberal elite and think that bringing down a bunch of hippies and university professors should be too big a challenge. Failing to realize that those hippies and university professors are backed by an army of union thugs, Mexican warlords and ethnic drug gangs.

I don't know the name of the place where it will start, but I'm convinced that a new name will soon join Lexington Green and Fort Sumter in America's history.

...to be a civil war in this country for the simple reason that both sides want there to be one.

I respectfully disagree and don't believe I'm alone when I say we do not want a war but as you so clearly pointed out..we have been cornered. We have lived by the creed, 'live and let live' never dreaming that a radical element would take over.

We've allowed this because we always had the choice to allow it. Schools polluted? Take your child out. Homesexual sex on display? Just turn your head. People screaming obscenities and unbelievable rhetoric against all that is good? We rationalized it in our minds that they would 'grow up' and 'get a life'.

No this is it. Now the choices are being removed and if we want to live free...then the obvious will happen. But they will be the ones to start it. Freedom isn't free or will it be bloodless.