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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (119672)	12/27/2000 6:14:05 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<Most wars are fought over a political viewpoint in some form. The Civil War was a contrast of two competing ideologies. So was WWII, and most other wars as well. Think about it. < Well, I think that's a stretch, more than a stretch. Most wars, historically, have had economic foundations and/or been driven by a leader with deep seated psychological problems. The cause of the civil war was economic/social. The south, with an agrargrian system built on slavery, was increasingly at odds with a northern/western system built on free labor and industry. Now, if you were to poll people at the time and ask them the cause of the war, neither in the north or the south would "slavery" have been at the top of the list. The average person in the south would have said "states rights" and the average person in the north would have said "union". But, it really went much deeper than that and no matter how you look at it it goes back to the basic divergence in the economies that was driven by slavery. Overall, I would say that the vast majority of wars have been driven by nationalism/territory. It was the humiliation and frustration of WWI that motivated most Germans to support Hitler. Most Germans were hardly zealots who thought that Nazism should be violently imposed on other nations. Germany didn't attack Poland because of ideology, it was about Hitler's megalomania and the desire of German's, in general, to reassert their national power. Japan's colonial movement, invasion of China and finally attack on the U.S. didn't have anything to do with ideology, it was about economic resources and national power. What ideological differences started WWI? Franco-Prussian War? Hundred Years War? War of Roses? These were fought between nations with nearly identical systems and values. They were all about nationalism and economics.