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.”