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Entry: A Reply to Thomas DiLorenzo Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/a_reply_to_thomas_dilorenzo#24838 Post contents: What Grant is doing is not defending every action Lincoln took to end the attempted Southern secession. He is simply pointing out the problem of treating Lincoln's use of presidential power as a nationalist dealing with secessionists as a necessary precondition for later military crusades to spread global democracy. Whatever the rights or wrongs of Lincoln's actions, many of the most fervent Wilsonians and later supporters of FDR were the proud descendants of Confederate veterans. These democratic crusaders, who swarmed all over the American South, found no inconsistency between flying Confederate flags and invading foreign countries in the name of democracy. By contrast, some of our most defiant isolationists, like William Jennings Bryant and LaFollette, were admirers of Lincoln. There is no straight line between admiring or hating Lincoln and taking a predetermined position in American foreign policy, up until about the second half of the twentieth century. Grant is right that DiLorenzo,Wills and Jaffa all share the same timebound view of the person they hate or love. Sent at: 2008 10 11