tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060696059642580878.post2023374998916690170..comments2023-10-30T07:53:58.018-05:00Comments on Crime, Law and Justice: Sesquicentennial of ReconstructionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09908922017589211092noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060696059642580878.post-82936733236470312282015-10-22T13:29:10.680-05:002015-10-22T13:29:10.680-05:00Thanks for the comment. Agreed, U.S. military and ...Thanks for the comment. Agreed, U.S. military and foreign policy has been driven by the naïve expectation that getting rid of dictators will somehow result in peaceful democracy. Historians and others have wondered how Reconstruction would have played out if Lincoln had not been assassinated.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09908922017589211092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060696059642580878.post-55398124395431830752015-10-22T10:32:27.088-05:002015-10-22T10:32:27.088-05:00The north's military victory had little impact...The north's military victory had little impact on changing a cultural anomaly driven by America's southern plantation owners and their political endorsers. Reminds me of the problems America has recently experienced in the Levant. Our military may have won battles, but this didn't change the attitudes of the Islamist organizers and their hard liners. Lincoln obviously knew combating people's discriminatory biases required much more time. Over 100 years later .... Our surged forces would probably still be in Iraq and Afghanistan if Lincoln was president today. He certainly would never have signed a nuclear deal with the ayatollah's regime. 44https://www.blogger.com/profile/12279323738793315123noreply@blogger.com