Had I been around for the Civil War, I would certainly not have been in favor of it. It was not a war to end slavery–it coincidentally led to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. It was not a war started by the South–the North attacked the South. The Civil War was highly unnecessary and everyone would likely be better off if it was never fought. Slavery was ended in all Western nations without the death of half a million people. The still lingering racial tensions and atrocity of Jim Crow is more a reaction of the South’s resentment towards Lincoln’s aggression.

Russia and Georgia had a brief war–or what was Russia whooping Georgia’s ass. I’ve talked about this war before and I am not on Georgia’s side. Georgia was the aggressor. Georgia attacked an independent state. One that has been independent from Georgia since the 1990s. After Russia cast a vote to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, President Bush and the majority of the U.S. media is crying foul.

Our government has vowed to support the people of Georgia to ensure their sovereignty and territorial integrity. I’m not sure if the Georgian people really care too much about these two breakaway territories. They have been independent for over a decade and the people haven’t made much noise. To pretend that our government cares about the people of Georgia is absurd–they barely care about us. Raping our Constitution as they please, wasting our tax dollars, and, of course, mortgaging our futures.

There is nothing wrong with these two territories claiming independence. We had done this once upon a time in the year 1776. Our Declaration of Independence is a document of secession. We were a part of the English empire and wanted no more to do with them so we declared our independence. The English didn’t like that so that attacked us and we teach this history with the English as the bad guys. Obviously, history is a little more complex than that and the English version of our independence is a little different but, we put fault on the English for attacking us when we decided to secede.

The situation with Georgia is no different. Two territories declared independence and that’s it. The fact that Georgia decide to reconquer them by force is a fault of Georgia. In the exact same light, the South wanted to leave and they should have been allowed to. The fact that Lincoln started a war to forcibly conquer the Confederacy is a fault of Lincoln.

The Founding Fathers would have pointed to Georgia as the agressor and villian. In our bizzaro America, we think Georgia is the victim. The fact is, Russia came to the aid of small independent state from the aggressions of Georgia. Russia is no angel but, they aren’t the devil in this situation. Lincoln is the one to blame for this love of big government and idea that you can use force of arms to enslave others in the name of “national unity” or what Bush calls “territorial integrity.”

You gotta watch this. I’ve been writing about the recent Georgian/Russian conflict and have placed the fault on Georgia. That video is an account of what happened from a 12 year old from the Bay Area who so happened to have been in South Ossetia visiting family.

Russia has defied a truce with Georgia to cease-fire and we are sending troops into the area. We have no business in that conflict and should stay out of it. Our politicians can lecture Russia about invading countries if they want to although, those living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The last thing we currently need is to start a conflict with Russia.

The situation over there is hardly as clear cut as the media is reporting. Georgia had invaded South Ossetia–a “breakaway” territory. It so happens that South Ossetia has a great deal of Russian citizens and Russia used that as an excuse to invade Georgia in the name of protecting its own citizens. Russia has as much a right to protect its citizens as we do if we had Americans living near the Mexican border who were in danger. Of course, Russia has probably taken this a little further than was necessary.

This is a problem that Russia and Georgia will have to settle–not a problem that we should involve our military in. We are not in a position to become involved in any more wars–especially not one with Russia. This is not a third world Middle Eastern country–it’s a former superpower. They actually have nukes.