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Entry: A response to my critics Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/a_response_to_my_critics#26680 Post contents: Let us by all means get back to Lincoln for you cannot simply slough off criticism of your comments by saying that those criticisms are "predictable". The finding that 2 + 2 = 4 is even MORE "predictable" but that does not in any way diminish its accuracy. Was Lincoln a "great man"? That depends upon your definition of "great". If by "great" you mean did he affect the world around him in a way that will live in history, then certainly, Lincoln was just that. By that definition, however, you could also call Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin and Mao "great men" for they, too, affected the world around them in ways that will live in history. On the other hand, if you define "great" as being noble, honorable and moral, then I must respectfully disagree. For however "pure" a man's motives may be, that neither determines nor changes the nature of the acts that were committed. For Lincoln's actions were IG-noble in that he waged total war upon a People whom he insisted were fellow Americans; DIS-honorable in that he waged a barbaric war that frequently degenerating into outright efforts at genocide; and IM-moral in that he had no right under the laws of God or Man to do what he did. This is the year of the so-called "Lincoln Bicentennial". It is time - indeed, long PAST time - for a much closer and more objective scrutiny of "The Great Emancipator" than has been and is currently allowed by our present "historians" - Lincoln apologists and myth-makers all. Sent at: 2008 08 29