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If slavery was not central to the Confederate cause, then why did they not emancipate and recruit black slaves ? Why was the South's price for reconciliation the blood drenched imposition of Jim Crow ?

Demidog, you maintain the ludicrous libertarian fiction that America somehow can exempt itself from world history, from patterns of force. Only a libertarian or an idiot would choose to fight without allies. Only a libertarian or an idiot could not see in 1939 that the Axis Powers would someday come after us. In fact, a Gallup Poll taken in 1939 found 60% of the American people understood that if the Axis won this war, we're next. So I should think that basic common sense should make it clear that their winning the war would be a very, very bad thing and something that basic survival self interest (funny how libertarians have this incredible sense of entitlement, as if survival were a given) should dictate against.

Libertarianism is a totally American ideology. Only a country with an ocean on either side and weak continental neighbors could be that geopolitically pampered. The rest of the world, nations which know what it is to have dangerous neighbors, cannot be so frivolous.