To: The Canton Observer
Re: “Freedom the key”, Letter to the Editor, Sept. 9.
In the letter “Freedom is the key”, Sept. 9, the author believes that President Bush’s plan to democratize the Middle East and in so doing, stabilize the area, eliminate terrorism and finally bring freedom to all, is a plan we should all support. The goals of such a plan may be noble but to assume that democracy is for everyone is naïve and in the case of Iraq; deadly and without a chance of success.
As far as the American Civil War is concerned, to think that slavery was the only reason for the war is also naïve. Northern soldiers did not risk their lives to free Negroes from slavery; they did it to preserve the union and northern industrial prosperity. Confederate soldiers from the rural south risked their lives not to preserve slavery but to preserve their independence and their way of life from the ever dominating and encroaching north.
Re: “Freedom the key”, Letter to the Editor, Sept. 9.
In the letter “Freedom is the key”, Sept. 9, the author believes that President Bush’s plan to democratize the Middle East and in so doing, stabilize the area, eliminate terrorism and finally bring freedom to all, is a plan we should all support. The goals of such a plan may be noble but to assume that democracy is for everyone is naïve and in the case of Iraq; deadly and without a chance of success.
As far as the American Civil War is concerned, to think that slavery was the only reason for the war is also naïve. Northern soldiers did not risk their lives to free Negroes from slavery; they did it to preserve the union and northern industrial prosperity. Confederate soldiers from the rural south risked their lives not to preserve slavery but to preserve their independence and their way of life from the ever dominating and encroaching north.
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