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To: Neocon who wrote (1251)	11/3/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

The 10th Amendment is an affirmation that the United States Constitution expressly incorporates a concept of natural rights. Don't get me started on what that means in relation to the Warren Court's penumbras and emanations. As for the rhetorical power of slavery as an issue in resolving the Civil War, most of the contemporary accounts uniformly accord Confederacy forces with higher morale in the field and so from an objective perspective, I am forced to believe that if both sides are pissed enough to shoot at each other they eact believe it's for the greater good and that God is on their respective side. It's a wash on the ground in battle but it does make for good press in transitioning a democracy into a state of rightous indignation as preface to war. (NEWS FLASH-TODAY the Lusitania was torpedoed while carrying munitions to Britain under a flag of neutrality. It doesn't read as well does it?) By the way did the better side win or lose in the Spanish Civil War? Was Communism or Fascism more morally reprehensible? Well most of the participants in that one did concede that the losers had much better songs. Or didn't it matter unless and until American interests were at stake? I'll take either side of that Facism/Bad v. Communism/Bad argument and make an equally rational case that one is worse than the other. But I only really care enough to shed blood, mine, my neighbors or our enemies when I believe that a rational assessment of our own vital national interests are at stake. Young men and women who serve at risk of their lives in our armed forces do so because they possess civic virtue and hold this country dearer than their own lives. I'll be damned if I want to see that rare commodity squandered in an alley in Mogadishu.