[man_in_tx]

Sounds logical to me.

[BroJoeK]

man_in_tx: "Sounds logical to me."

Napolitano is misinformed and highly confused on a number of key points, including:

• What was the Federal Union's response to Deep-South secession in early 1861?
  (Answer: virtually nothing.)

• Who committed dozens of acts of insurrection and rebellion against the United States?
  (Answer: Confederates seizing Federal forts, ships, arsenals, armories, mints, etc., firing on Federal ships, threatening Federal officials -- January through April 1861.)

• What was President Lincoln's policy in March of 1861 regarding war with the Confederacy?
  (Answer: no war unless Confederates started it.)

• Who first raised an army of 100,000 troops? (Answer: the Confederacy, beginning on March 6, 1861, with another 400,000 on May 9).

• Who started Civil War?
  (Answer: Confederacy at Fort Sumter, April 12)

• Who first offered military aid to its forces operating within the other's states?
  (Answer: Jefferson Davis on April 23 offered military aid to Confederates in the Union state of Missouri.)

• Who formally declared war?
  (Answer: Confederacy on May 6, 1861)

So Civil War came because Confederates wanted and started it, for reasons that are simple and obvious: they believed they would win, and war would be the fastest, simplest and most glorious way to resolve all legal issues.

Confederates wanted a Second War of Independence.
President Lincoln granted their wish, and defeated them.

By ignoring the fact that the United States was attacked and invaded in 1861, Napolitano makes a case that's otherwise not just illogical, but unintelligible.