Quote Originally Posted by Pat Barry View Post
I wonder who PBS and Burns' say won that war?
With the disclaimer that I'm not all the way through it, they seem to be making a case that nobody won that war. Everyone lost in some way or another.

A couple of other themes I'm hearing:
1. Blame doesn't lie in any one lap, there were lots and lots of contributing factors, many of which are not widely known
2. If there's one thing to be gained by dissecting a difficult period of history, it's to learn from the past and prevent it from ever happening again - which is exactly what was not done at the time