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From: Young J. Putt
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:58
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:58
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<hchickpea@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:450927e0.26751407@news.earthlink.net... > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote: > > >I _must_ be dense, right? What was Condi talking about? > > > >Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared critics of the Iraq war to > >Northerners who sought peace with the South during the Civil War. > >"There were people who thought the Declaration of Independence was a > >mistake," she said. > > You might read more history. Certainly Condi is trying discredit the anti-war crowd by comparing them to those with such "obviously" ridiculous views. I think an interesting thing to consider is whether, at the time, those positions were really so unreasonable. Would it have been necessarily so wrong to oppose violent rebellion against the English government during the revolutionary period? In the case of the Civil War, was it ridiculous to suggest that the Southern states be allowed to form their own union, especially considering the incredible cost in human life and property caused by the conflict? Historically, isn't the "rightness" or "wrongness" of the two sides of a conflict always determined, after the fact, by the victor?
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