-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> I'll answer the other questions later, when I have a little time to
 SB> think.  But you still haven't gotten it.  The South seceded after
 SB> Lincoln's election in 1860.  The Civil War was over by 1865.  (bratty
 SB> grin)
 
 picky picky... 
 But, still the same question in 1865. 
 
 Would you have "reconstructed" the South or let it alone to "reconstruct"
 itself? (BTW, this is the same kind of pattern someone like Drinnon would
 look at.) For example, why was it/is it the "American" philosophy to render
 "aid" to the "enemy" after defeating them or to not "reconstruct"? Why
 rebuild Japan after WW II and not Germany after WW I? We have now kinda
 sorta "won" the Cold War with Russia, is it America's "job" to get Russia
 back on its feet again? Why, after we "won" the "Indian Wars", are "we"
 (the collective, ubiquitous "we" which obviously does _not_ include you and
 me) Americans still treating some Indians like they are the "enemy"? 
 Jim
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