[Sam's Army]

"Until then, all arguments against the Confederacy are moot."

Not quite; I respectfully submit that it is not the confederate flag that flies today as the "national" flag in the southern states.

War settles debates.

[=Intervention=]

So, because of the outcome, no state should be allowed to have a flag with the Stars and Bars? And if any should dare, why, we will proscribe the freedom of every voter in that state, and then the state itself, to fly a flag based on the stars and bars! Why? Because as you said, war settles debates -- and brute force is required to keep the rebels down and to make sure they never remember that there never was anything but a centralized union. Purge the history books, purge the flags, for everyone must agree, and those who do not, well, violence is reserved for them too, huh? That's the logical extension of your freedom-sapping policies.