Posted on 09/25/2002 8:56:52 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Didn't you know that?
That kind of sophomoric legalism is beneath you, Walt. Once the concept of 'third world' is understood as applied in its own era, it can be applied rhetorically to other eras.
Whatever; it was good for a laugh.
In 1848, --we-- were a third world country. LOL!
Walt
Excepting Lee and Jackson, the so-called CSA had about zero military success.
Walt
In many ways, yes.
You do important work presenting counterarguments to the Southron's positions, work which is more credible when you keep to the high road.
I can see some merit to both arguments, though ultimately the evil of slavery makes me a Yankee by creed as well as georgraphy.
As far as I know, Longstreet's trenches were truly originals.
Sure it's an expression - you can interpret it as political if you like, but then you could apply that logic to any statue, monument, etc.
Hmmm.......pretty good credentials for getting sculpted up on Stone Mountain, I'm thinking.
Walt
Me, Davis, Lee and Jackson could be the four horsemen.
Walt
Not necessarily. Third world is perfectly applicable, though politically incorrect, as a descriptive term today. Last I checked the Soviet Union was no more. Semantic nonsense aside though, why do you refuse to address Lincoln's treasonous pandering to Santa Anna?
Hmmm.......pretty good credentials for getting sculpted up on Stone Mountain, I'm thinking.
It must be even more so in Washington, D.C. They've got a huge statue of a white supremacist president sitting in a chair there. And only a couple blocks away they've got a monument to a guy who thought Japanese people were a racial sub-species and ordered them locked up in prison camps.
The founders of the country firmly believed that the Articles of Confederation had failed. The states had plenty of soverignty there. They could print their own money, pass any laws they liked, and it was --almost-- the ruination of the whole experiment.
The founders clearly realized that there must be a national government with power over all. They set up such a government -- one that was strong enough to overcome a gigantic rebellion against the lawful authority. And it was a government that even in the midst of war was able to conduct elections and accomplish the people's difference with minimum disruptions of the freedom of the people.
It shouldn't be forgottten that after the ACW, the federal government settled back into the relative unimportance it had for many years prior to the ACW.
It was only with the turn of the century that you see the income tax, the welfare state and all the rest. Hard to blame poor old Lincoln for all that.
Walt
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