[stand watie]

you mean like the French intervened, when GEN Washington fought the British????

rotflmRao AT you.

free dixie,sw

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Here's the difference. Washington utilized the French against the British. The British were from across the sea, foreigners, not Americans. The Confederates wished to utilize the French and British against fellow Americans, fellow Americans that Washington wished to be one to ensure the freedom of our continent.

Of course there's always been a few Southerners who consider the "Yankee" to be every bit the foreigner than Europeans are. Those with such an attitude might not see how reprehensible the Confederate foreign policy would have been to a George Washington. One such notable "Southern nationalist" was that hothead fire eater who before his postwar suicide proclaimed "I hate the Yankee race".