Lincoln, Civil War, KKK, Blowback

[iamvoodoo]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but has Ron Paul ever insinuated that the Civil War gave rise to the KKK much like modern day American interventionist foreign policy gives rise to terrorist extremists around the world?

Ron Paul has been given some flak for being critical of Lincoln and the Civil War, and proposed a gradual, more peaceful solution to slavery. This is much in line with his position that America should lead by example, and not by force of arms.

I'm surprised I've never heard him make this correlation before.

[Liberty Star]

This is an interesting angle, we have had an excessively "interventionist" policy in our domestic affairs also? Never heard it framed that way.

Slightly tangential but foreign and domestic policies have to be closely aligned to meet demands of one another. How would you go to war and occupy a foreign land with few hundred thousand troops if no one showed up to go to war?

[ChaosControl]

Reconstruction gave rise to it.

[Epic]

Yeah ron paul basically said that on meet the press
YouTube - RON PAUL being blasted by Bill Kristol on Fox News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rduigENzHo)

[Liberty Star]

Lincoln did not abolish slavery because of his views on race relations, it was because a he needed a "game changer" in the war and he thought that this would be his winning card.
We should never ever have had slavery in first place.

But that's all a historic point, right now we have to focus on preserving liberties for all at home and ending econmic bleeding and open-ended funding to racist apartheids and dictatorships in holy land and mideast. That is what is contributing to oppressive slavery of many humans today.