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Entry: Just War, Jeremiah, and Jeremiah Weed Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/just_war_jeremiah_and_jeremiah_weed#900 Post contents: Civil War or secession is a gray area of the just war theory. Mr Cantrell's facts are also wrong. The Confederate government would only negotiate the terms of their secession (i.e, defeat for the Union forces). It also made life hell for the (numerous) pro-Union Southerners. The pro_unionist people of Eastern Tennesee greeted Gen. Burnside's troops so effusively after two years of Confederate rule that the general and his staff were reduced to tears!Of course, neither side knew how costly the war would be in human life; nevertheless, the Confederate government fought on long after any reasonable hope of succcess had passed. This is a clear violation of just war doctrine and cost the South dearly in blood and treasure (much of the physical destruction in the South came after all hope was gone). Sent at: 2008 10 13