Acerbic Politics

From the New York Daily News

Secretary of State Rice compared the Iraq war with the American Civil War, telling a magazine that slavery might have lasted longer in this country if the North had decided to end the fight early.

"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," Rice said in the new issue of Essence magazine.

"I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'" Rice said.

Condi, I have a reply...

I'm sure there are people who lived in the south during the U.S. civil war, some of whom held slaves, who felt that the war to secede was just and worth every life lost. I'm sure some considered it a holy war - the bible really does seem to justify the holding of slaves - and who believed that their president, Jefferson Davis, could do no wrong.

I'm sure there were some in the south who cried when the war had to come to an end. There were those who were ready to fight on against the north, ready to give their lives until the end, even though there was no victory to be found in continuing.

Might makes right only because the victors are the ones who determine what is righteous.

Give it up - the Iraq war is lost.