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In a different thread someone suggested looking it up, and doing was interesting.
"A victorious side, for instance, that sees itself as rightfully triumphant is more likely to impose its will and exactions upon the defeated in a more stringent manner in which a victorious side that sees itself as its enemy's equal; but universality demands seeing one's enemy as oneself and understanding not just the Realpolitik of state interests and state gains in victory but also the conventions of magnanimity and honor in victory (or defeat)."
Interesting as how it relates to ACW postwar. The Union would seemed to have viewed the former confederates as equals as well wished to restore them as equals.
"A victorious side, for instance, that sees itself as rightfully triumphant is more likely to impose its will and exactions upon the defeated in a more stringent manner in which a victorious side that sees itself as its enemy's equal; but universality demands seeing one's enemy as oneself and understanding not just the Realpolitik of state interests and state gains in victory but also the conventions of magnanimity and honor in victory (or defeat)."
Interesting as how it relates to ACW postwar. The Union would seemed to have viewed the former confederates as equals as well wished to restore them as equals.
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