[90844] in Cypherpunks
Re: Further costs of war
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Nov 24 14:46:14 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971124104803.9915F-100000@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:03:03 -0700
To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 9:12 AM -0700 11/24/97, Rabid Wombat wrote:
>>
>> The last justifiable war the American states were involved in was,
>> arguably, the War of 1812. Every war since then has been unjustified.
>>
>> --Tim May
>>
>
>Chuckle. The "war" of 1812 was nearly as much of an internal political
>struggle over the form the U.S. gov't was to take as was the "civil war."
That's why I was careful to say, "arguably." It may or may not have been a
justifiable war, but at least it involved foreign powers acting on or
against actual domestic, contental soil. Something the various later wars
did not directly involve.
--Tim May
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