That would be the lagacy of post - Civil War politics.What part of the solution to slavery in the US would you call "solving things very well"? The KKK, cultural division, and continuing racial strife more than a century and a half later-- this is the legacy of the Civil War. War, as a rule, is messy, and creates more messes.
Much like what is going on in Iraq is not the result of the wonderful operation that took the nation, but the post war screwups that have plagued it.
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