Perry E. Metzger [19/08/08 11:06 -0400]:
1) The South was wrong for contending it had the right to enslave
people.
2) The North was wrong for contending it had the right to impose
itself on the South.
I believe the South did indeed have the right to leave -- I just don't
think it had the right to maintain the system of slavery.
You cant have your cake and eat it too. Sure the civil war was about
secession rights far more than "free the slaves".
Texas wasnt too much on slave owning, cattle rather than cotton so far
fewer employees needed, unlike the deep south with labor intensive work
like, say, picking cotton. They still joined the confederacy ..
But .. something had to be done. There wasn't any UN around either to pass
sanctions against the Confederate States of America.
I think it was churchill who said "you can either jaw-jaw or war-war"
Giving up Kashmir would be dumb. Treating the kashmiri muslims like the
israelis treat the palestinians is even dumber, and encourages a lot more
local support to whatever freedom fighting, jihad, terrorism or whatever
you call it goes on.
Though, the kashmiri muslims / hurriyat seem to be on a winner now.
Peaceful mass demonstrations, memoranda to the UN etc etc while the
hindu nationalists are being their usual obnoxious self, setting up an
economic blockade on the kashmir valley among other things.
srs
