In the beginning...the slaughter went both ways dude. Excess is not defense and the Christians are no innocents in religious body counts. Get real.
Wrong. In the beginning, the slaughter went all one way. Islam expanded by slaughter at the expense of Christianity. The Muslims rampaged through the Middle East for over 300 years before any Christian ever raises a finger to them.
How come the Leftist never noticed the sword on the flag of the keepers of Mecca?
well hell they think the confederates were traitors because they fought for their land. We're dealing with some truly stupid with these libturds.
Now.....see that!
Watch what you're gonna make me do.
Confederates began a war against their own nation, based on the false idea that Britain would come to their aid due to dependence on cotton.
And start the war they did.
1. Major Robert Anderson and 85 men were stranded in Fort Sumter.
2. Surrounding him were hundreds of militiamen and coastal guns.
3. Lincoln refused to give the fort up, but the fort was running out of food: if he sent a supply convoy into Charleston Bay, he would be blamed for starting the war.....but how could he give in, and give up the fort?
4. William Seward tried to undermine Lincoln....telling Lincoln to give up the fort for 'goodwill.'
5. On April 5, Lincoln dispatched a fleet of supply ships with the proviso that was relayed to Jefferson Davis: the vessels would be unarmed, with the only cargo "food for hungry men."
6. Firing on the defenseless ships would have been an act of war by the Confederacy.
7. On Tuesday, April 9, Davis held a cabinet meeting, deciding on war. Three days later, and hours before the ships would arrive....the Southern forces attacked the fort.
"Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy," by Gavin Mortimer
- They weren't "stranded." They could have left at any time. They were promised safe conduct if they vacated the fort.
- So?
- Lincoln was obligated to give up the Fort. It was within the borders of South Carolina. If he resupplied the Fort, then he would be responsible for starting the war, which is exactly what happened.
- So? Seward was a resonable man who didn't want war. Lincoln, on the other hand, did want war.
- Sending your vessels into the territorial waters of another country is an act of war, regardless of whether they were armed or not - especially when their purpose is to maintain a force within the borders of that country.
- Nope.
- They decided to obstruct Lincoln's act of war. Lincoln is the one who instigated the war.
1. Lincoln was obligated to give up the Fort. It was within the borders of South Carolina.
Of course he wasn't. It was a federal facility withing the border of the United States...of which he was the President.
2. Lincoln, on the other hand, did want war.
Nonsense.
3. Sending your vessels into the territorial waters of another country...
What????
This, of course, is a priori evidence of insanity....if you really believe that.
There was only one country, the United States of America....contingent on the outcome of the war the South wanted...and started.
4. Firing on an unarmed food transport....not an act of war?
Yup...you're insane.
Or....perhaps you'd argue that the attack of 9/11 as simply enforcing the caliphate.
Let's remember that the cause of the war was secession, not slavery.
If you believe otherwise, take a look at Lincoln's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861:
"
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so,and I have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that
I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them;and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
'Resolved', That the maintenance
inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. I now reiterate these sentiments,..."
Abraham Lincoln Inaugural Address
Clearly, Lincoln had no desire for war, but simply for the '
endurance of our political fabric.'
Clearly, it was not Lincoln who instigated the war.