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Entry: The Limits of Lincoln Bashing Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_limits_of_lincoln_bashing#24226 Post contents: Having been invoked in this judicious assessment of the Lincoln legacy, allow me to register my agreement with Grant's admonition against Lincoln-bashing on the paleo right. While Jaffa and his neocon look-alikes have instrumentalized our sixteenth president as an icon for global democracy-building and for the pursuit of equality through public administration, there is no reason for us to imitate their ideologically- driven hysteria from the opposite side. Although Lincoln's invasion of the South had disastrous consequences, he was probably a sincere but misguided American patriot. He also faced a difficult internal situation and was not interested in mucking around on other continents in order to impose a utopian vision. Sent at: 2008 08 28