Most all wars the U.S. has fought were basically other peoples civil or regional conflicts.Whether it be WW I, Korean or the latest Iraqi invasion we have chosen one side over another. At the moment we are wringing our hands about the Syrians killing Syrians. Just yesterday the estimated toll of Syrians dead was upped to 60,000. Assad is a bad man.
What about our own Civil War? The North and South collectively lost over 700,000. Popular belief opines freeing of African slaves was the reason for the war. What's more, no one seems to mind the loss of indigenous peoples, that be we white majority peoples, losing their lives and properties in the cause of freeing field workers who were not citizens.Fact is that the chief instigator of the war by his policies the dyspeptic President Abraham Lincoln was honored for his dirty work by a stunning memorial in Washington, D.C. Now that really sends the wrong signals to minorities and their lawyers and advocates.Hence the riots in the 1960's. Slavery was being abolished peacefully around the globe in the 1860's. We didn't need a war. In the 1960's Martin Luther Kings non-violent ,Ghandi-type resistance to segregation was winning. There wasn't any need for Watts in Los Angeles or Detroit or Berkeley etc. Lincoln was a bad man.
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