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Question: Which of the following American conflicts would you have supported intervening in with hindsight?
#1
Revolutionary War		  
#2
Quasi-War		  
#3
War of 1812		  
#4
Mexican-American War		  
#5
American Civil War (as someone in the Union)		  
#6
Spanish-American War		  
#7
World War I		  
#8
World War II		  
#9
Korean War		  
#10
Vietnam War		  
#11
Operation Just Cause (Panama)		  
#12
First Gulf War		  
#13
Bosnian War		  
#14
Kosovo War		  
#15
Afghan War		  
#16
Iraq War		  
#17
Operation Unified Protector (Libya)		  
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Miamiu1027
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« on: May 24, 2012, 02:39:28 PM »
against the invasion of the South.
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 04:01:53 PM »

the burden is on those who would favor an action, rather than it would be on me to prove a negative.  so you can start us off.
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2012, 11:20:38 AM »
Quote from: Lief on May 25, 2012, 02:21:43 AM
Quote from: Miamiu1027 on May 24, 2012, 04:01:53 PM

the burden is on those who would favor an action, rather than it would be on me to prove a negative.  so you can start us off.

Slavery was bad; the Civil War ended it.

the average Southern black life (adjusting for broader trend-line quality-of-life increases) was no better in, say, 1950 than it was in 1860.
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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2012, 01:26:47 PM »
you also had the mass use of extralegal state terror directed at blacks, a post-Reconstruction development without parallel in the pre-1861 universe.
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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2012, 02:44:04 PM »
ok, but in order to justify a mass invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of people and ravaged an entire region (country?), the burden to prove is on you that any difference was worth this very substantial cost.
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