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From: Don K
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:30
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:30
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<hchickpea@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:450d6a18.43705981@news.earthlink.net... > > Whatever the costs of the civil war, the alternatives would have been > far worse. The successful secession would have quickly opened the > door for the Balkanization of the other states, and the weakening of > the defensive power of the nation, leading to more battles between > states and countries. Mexico would have surely taken Texas and the > west, at considerable loss of life, the northern states would have had > constant skirmishes over disputed land, Napoleon might have found > Louisiana more enticing than Egypt, and more importantly, the outcome > of WWII would have been vastly different. Omigosh! You've come around to the domino theory! Don
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