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[erudito]

Historian John Terraine called the American Civil War “the first modern war”: this picture of Charleston in 1865 reminds one of post-bombing WWII Germany.

On how the Middle East has always been hard:
The Middle East doesn't need a diplomatic process; it needs a revolutionary transformation of its political culture, like what we saw in Western

Comments

[assassinus]

I thought it looked like *too* much damage....The damage to the cathedral in the photo looks like WW2 rather than ACW because it was from a fire that occurred before the war, not just from the war itself.

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[erudito]

But some of the damage from shelling to other buildings looks impressive.