Causes are never heroic?

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2004)

Here is a quote from Anthony Minghella...."The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic." Has this man and much of modern society forgotten that the war between the states put an end to the institution of slavery in the U.S.. It has been argued by those who detest our heritage that the war was actually about 'states rights' but who can honestly believe that men and boys (not a professionally trained military anxious to use their newly acquired skills) would feel passionately enough to leave their homes to fight a bloody war about 'states rights'. These were people who knew that slavery was an evil that could not be tolerated, and they finally took the initiative to put an end to it. On the other side were the people in the south who had become blind to that fact because their entire way of life depended upon it (slavery). War is a horrible fact of human life; but there are noble causes and the civil war in the U.S. was truly one of them.