[rhombus]

I have no doubt that people in this country would also turn to militia’s if the central Gov’t were unable to or unwilling to provide protection and security. I also have no doubt that there would be rival militias fighting for control. We were once told in this country that the slaves weren’t ready to be free and they couldn’t take care of themselves. In the aftermath of the war between our states, as the Union Army withdrew and Reconstruction waned many independent militia’s formed, Republican politicians were murdered and quite often court houses and other public structures were simply taken over by rival gangs. The terrorist wing of the Democratic party (aka the KKK) burned and pillaged their way throughout a number of Southern cities. Appomattox may have ended the war (Mission Accomplished) but it took many, many years to stabilize things in the South and to put down numerous insurrections on the local level.

[31R1O]

Your point of view is a rather Hobbesian one but sadly, it is probably accurate.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Your view of history is clearly coming from the North. Southerners that put up with Carpetbaggers and Federal vengeance on our people have a different view. Reconstruction was a disaster for the South. Southerners probably overreacted to the foul treatment and Jim Crow was the result. If our troops are acting like the Union Army under reconstruction, we have failed over there,

[Future Snake Eater]

Appomattox may have ended the war (Mission Accomplished) but it took many, many years to stabilize things in the South and to put down numerous insurrections on the local level.

And what was the difference between that situation and this one? We still handled it ourselves, without a foreign military pouring gobs of money and thousands of lives into the solution. We had an internal problem, and we fixed it internally. The hajis have no such compunction. They are very happy letting us do the work for them.