This is a widely shared attitude and explains why America can never really win a counter-insurgency war except under the most favorable of circumstances (where the guerrillas are genuinely weak & isolated from the population).https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/1076847224653578240 …
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I don't think the Union's appetite for a long drawn-out counterinsurgency war was very strong. But Union troops could have freed a lot of slaves, possibly destroyed the South's economy in the process. But the South would have blockaded the Mississippi, hurt the North.
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Historian William Pencak wrote a Baudrillard version of this idea: "The Civil War did not take place, and the South won it."pic.twitter.com/HisBfAEeCG
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Right - I think Reconstruction basically answers that question. That was my main takeaway from reading "Grant" recently.
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