From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 03:10:07 +0800
To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Subject: Re: Further costs of war
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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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