Although I reject in the first place the notion that the non-southern US would have substantially different foreign policy-let's put that aside. How do you suppose Jesusland would financially support a military empire? Taxes? Hah! No, they would seek to finance their military empire the way military empires usually seek to finance themselves - conquest for resource extraction and trade extortion. Whereas North and South feuded incessantly over the territories before the Civil War began - and would have gone to war over them immediately even if the south's secession had been agreeable to Lincoln - they would fight over trade issues and their spheres of influence if they were to split up today. Now just imagine CSA President Rick Perry or Rick Scott and Haley Barbour with nuclear armed B52s and cruise missiles at their command. Imagine further that the United States of Canada has edged out the Confederate States of America, so rumor has it, in competition for the lucrative oil fields concession in Iraq or Kafiristan or wherever... Still feeling safe and secure up there?
If the author of this silly trash believes the US could split up and the southern/redstate bloc would accept less than half of the military hardware including the strategic arms, then they don't understand the first thing about the subject of their book. They appear to be ignorant of the role which possession of arms and military bases played in the outbreak of war the last time this brilliant idea was put into action. If someone once told them how southern states seized federal armories and installations upon passing their articles of secession, it appears to not to have sunk in. They fail to understand the nature of the nation state (an armed gang holding a turf), and the character of the redstate people they disparage.
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