[Restorer]

because of the dissolution of the conscript army at the end of the Civil War, no longer empathized with a volunteer force beyond the Mississippi that was drawn from the working classes.…

Didn't get any farther. The vast majority of Union soldiers during the WBTS were volunteers, if sometimes bonused or shamed into volunteering.

[Petronski]

Thanks for the post. That's a great model of the Iraqi situation. Strong writing, great points.

[Cacique]

L8R

[gusopol3]

And as the thunderous roar of a global cosmopolitan press corps gets louder--demanding the application of abstract principles of universal justice that, sadly, are often neither practical nor necessarily synonymous with American national interest

at least this theme was one that 99.9% of Freepers would agree with ( i think)