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**huerta** · 04-26-2007, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by Ned
But the contrast between the Civil War and the current war on the one hand, and WWI and WWII on the other, couldn't be more striking. The War of Yankee Aggression was a fairly unpopular concept from the get-go, especially when it was so badly bungled. There wasn't a whole lot of naysaying when McClellan was seven miles from the outskirts of Richmond and bringing up all those mortars and heavy artillery, but a year of slaughter and defeat after defeat in a war for which not many felt a real stake is a bit hard to swallow.

Especially when you do things like trample on the Constitution, lock up dissenting newspaper editors, and run a kleptocracy on a scale that had never been seen before.

(IIRC, the Mexican-American war was also a controversial war even at the time.) So was the occupation of the Phillipines and deployment of troops against Phillipine insurgents after the Spanish-American war.

04-26-2007, 08:56 PM	#36
huerta Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 579 Senior Member	Originally posted by Ned But the contrast between the Civil War and the current war on the one hand, and WWI and WWII on the other, couldn't be more striking. The War of Yankee Aggression was a fairly unpopular concept from the get-go, especially when it was so badly bungled. There wasn't a whole lot of naysaying when McClellan was seven miles from the outskirts of Richmond and bringing up all those mortars and heavy artillery, but a year of slaughter and defeat after defeat in a war for which not many felt a real stake is a bit hard to swallow. Especially when you do things like trample on the Constitution, lock up dissenting newspaper editors, and run a kleptocracy on a scale that had never been seen before. (IIRC, the Mexican-American war was also a controversial war even at the time.) So was the occupation of the Phillipines and deployment of troops against Phillipine insurgents after the Spanish-American war.
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