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This 3 page paper discusses the similarities among the American Civil War, the Iraq War and the Yugoslavian Civil War. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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among the U.S. Civil War, the Iraq War and the Yugoslavian Civil War. Discussion On the face of it the three conflicts could hardly be more dissimilar. The U.S. Civil
War, depending on who you listen to, was fought to preserve the union, and/or to free the slaves, and/or to preserve the Southern way of life against Northern invaders. The
Iraq War (assuming we are talking about the current debacle) is being fought for reasons that are vague and seem to change the longer it goes on; and the Yugoslavian
Civil War seems to have been based on racial strife that degenerated into what is called "ethnic cleansing," a neutral term that means killing everyone whos different. Yet if we
consider the three wars more closely, the similarities start to emerge. First, in the U.S. Civil War, the North can be said to have invaded the South, but the
positions cannot be readily reversed. The only Southern sortie into Northern territory ended in disaster at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1863. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and did whatever was necessary
to win the Civil War; actions which are usually considered understandable, even praiseworthy. However, author James Bovard takes another view, likening the invasion of the South by Northern troops to
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and other Western leaders justified the NATO bombing by the crackdowns that Serbian
forces had conducted on Kosovar Albanian rebels and civilians. However, prior to the onset of NATO bombing, the actions of the Serbian forces were more moderate than were the actions
of the Northern armies during our own Civil War" (Bovard, 1999). He suggests that if we want to put the Yugoslavian conflict in perspective, we should look at the Civil
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