No. Their response was disproportionate. It is as if a woman slaps her husband, and he beats her face in with his fists. It was an excessive overreaction.
Because you freely admit that the Confederate reason for initiating the war was even less justified than that.
It was most definitely a blunder. Even Fidel Castro knew better than to make that stupid move. They should have just swallowed their pride and lived with it, and just kept bugging Lincoln to turn it over to them.
And the Confederate action of bombarding Sumter to rubble? Are you willing to say that was far more disproportionate to any provocation the South could name?
It is as if a woman slaps her husband, and he beats her face in with his fists. It was an excessive overreaction.
A simplistic and somewhat inaccurate analogy. It would be more like the wife took several shots at her husband and he got his gun and fired back. Would you call that an excessive overreaction?
It was most definitely a blunder.
Never mind what the South should have done, was what they did do justified? Did the actions the garrison at Sumter took justify being bombarded into surrender? Or was it an excessive overraction on the Confederacy's part?