Not that I don’t feel vaguely bad for the drafted foot soldier, but can you imagine what this country could be like if we had been serious about reconstruction and kept federal troops in the south? Sure it’d be 50-100 years of guerrilla actions, but the country and the south would be infinitely better.
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Those “wars” have largely been failures, though, and haven’t required the populace as a whole to actually change their behavior in any way. Dubbing them wars was largely a way to unlock more money, ram through more laws, and excuse bad behavior on the part of the government.