Re: HUMOUR> General History of French Warfare

"Wooly Baa Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ray Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Wooly Baa Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Anyway, it's properly called the "War Between the States."
> >>
> >> (more seriously)
> >>
> >> Not in the south it's not.  Even 140 years later, in the south it
is
> >> still often called the "war of northern agression".
> >
> > What would you have called it if you had won?
>
> I dunno.  The Confederate Revolution?
> The 2nd War for Independance?
>
>
> >> And arguably, rightly so.
> >
> > Who started it, anyhow?  :-)
>
> I'm sure it started when Tommy kicked Bobby under the table when mom
> wasn't looking.  Isn't that how all fights "start"?
>
>
> Lest anyone think otherwise, I am NOT arguing that the South was
right.
> Only that their position had a valid legal argument.  Prior to the
civil
> war, there was no assumption that the U.S. as indivisible.  States had
> the ultimate authority, not the federal government.  Thus if a state
> wanted to leave the union, there is a valid argument that they had the
> right to do so.

This could easily start a 'discussion', but I am also of the opinion
that the federal gummint has usurped way too much power.  I would love
to see the federal gummint reduced in size.

I sympathize with some of the South's reasons, but I am very glad that
the US is still in one piece.

Ironically, history seems to be repeating itself in Europe.  A bunch of
soverign countries are coming together under the auspices of the
European Union.  How long will it take before we end up with a 'United
States of Europe'?

(Note: There are major differences, and the European countries are still
more independant than the original states were under the _Articles of
Confederation_.)


>
> What's even more astonishing is that there seems to be 2 ways of
> teaching this portion of US History in schools.  What I stated above
was
> actively taught when I was in school (1970's) in Greenville, TX.  It
is
> a version Dalene never heard going to school in Colorado....

We saw that in the earlier discussion about the war for independance.


Ray Drouillard