re: #91 EPR-radar

The idea that a better president between Jackson and Lincoln could have prevented the civil war is asinine. IMO the US civil war was inevitable.

If Buchanan hadn’t been such a dipshit, there probably would have been a Civil War anyway, but it would have been a lot shorter and less bloody.

Example: when various Southern State militias announced their intention to take various US Military installations, Buchanan told the army to pull out and let them have it. Including the armories. When Southern States bought trainloads of weapons from Northern factories, and Pennsylvania or Ohio or New York units would have been delighted to be ordered to seize those trains, Buchanan thought it was better to let them continue on with their cargo. When half a dozen of West Point’s top instructors, including Robert E Lee, resigned their commissions and stated in their letters of resignation that they intended to return to Virginia, etc to defend their States… he let them go.