Care to explain?

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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Georgia was completely totaled, and our ancestors lost over $100,000,000 in property, back when a penny was a lot of money and you were rich if you had a dollar. North Carolina was mostly spared because of the geography of Northern Virginia which prevented a full scale invasion from that direction.

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

North Carolina was spared because it had a a fairly large part of the population was loyal to the Union. Sherman marched north from SC into NC; the terrain of Virginia had nothing to do with it.

Regarless, the fact that Sherman destroyed Georgia and SC broke the spirits of much of the army, leading to a quick defeat. And thats how you win a war: you make it so terrible that the other side lays down his guns and walks away.

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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NC did have the largest population of people in the Confederacy still loyal to the union, but the river layout in Virgina (the rivers mainly flowing from East to West) prevented Union forces from marching in from that direction as rivers posed serious obstacles to military forces at that time, especially if there is another force on the opposite side of the river. However, farther West the Mississippi River allowed the Union forces to easily sweep into the South. They then proceeded to march East from there to where much of the South's industry and people were located. Mostly, the geography of Virginia prevented Sherman from marching South from Maryland, which would have devastated much of Virginia and NC.

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

No it didn't. Lee and Grant were tied up in Virginia. Sherman made his march across the south after taking the railroad hub of Chattanooga. After marching to Savannah, he turned north and would have eventually came up behind Lee to reinforce Grant, if the war had lasted that long. He never had planned to come south trough Virgina. Sherman was the commander of the western army.

Either way, it's off point. The tactic was effective in helping to producing the Confederate surrender.

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

I didn't necessarily mean that it would have been Sherman, but there was a reason they decided to go all the way around. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, and the tactic was effective.

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

Here is an analogy to the way we are prosecuting the war in Iraq:

if we are engaged in a conventional war i am inclined to agree with you. not so much on the "war on terror"

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Diuretic: ... The free market failed. ... What happened was that the free market, when left along without any sort of parental control, went feral. It was "Lord of the Flies meets Wall Street". It's over now though. The parents are back.

It even works then, tho. It's just not us doing it.

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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

i missed you explaining to us what infrastructure you would destroy in the war on terror
maybe it would be easier for you to identify the infrastructure that would not be destroyed ... in which case explain to us how that action will help the population we are saying we are there to assist
or do you intend to kill them all and sort them out later?

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“Mayor Palin fails to have a firm grasp of something very simple: the truth.”

[Frontiersman editorial, 2/7/97]

Quote:

Diuretic: ... The free market failed. ... What happened was that the free market, when left along without any sort of parental control, went feral. It was "Lord of the Flies meets Wall Street". It's over now though. The parents are back.