In Response to Courtney

I agree with your point that sometimes the bigger party of the two doesn't always have to win. This also applies to the Civil War, where everyone still believes that the North was victorious because the South retreated at the end, however, when looking at each battle individually, you see that te South won just as many battles as the North. On the topic of the Civil War, this was also fought over multiple ideas, such as state rights, slavery, and the fact that nobody in the South really liked Abraham Lincoln. I would just like to point out that your hypothesis that a war can be fought over an idea is possible, but hasn't happened can be proved wrong by the Civil War. I understand that you didn't really research this theory, but this was one of the biggest wars in our history and it greatly impacted our nation today. I also agree with you in that war is inevitable, because yes, sometimes violence is the answer, and if you were to just allow another country to attack your own and do nothing about it, the result would be incredibly unpleasant. Since you put that many people wil disagree, with you, I have no choice but to! We can avoid war, and I feel that the Civil War was avoidable, because it seems to me that if the North and South could have peacefully come to terms, the bloodiest war in history could have been evaded. Instead, manifest destiny just had to get in the way and egg on our country.