Fighting a rebelion, liberating a country. Are you sure about both those mission objectives?

The US annexed the Philipines and installed more US friendly governments in Iraq and Afghanistan - which some might go as far as to term "proxies".
lol i was talking about ww2 and the Philippines. jumping to conclusions, neh?
Geography? Is that what the US civil war was all about?
It was for Lee and Jackson the two best confederate generals and amny other southern officers. Lee didnt even like slavery....... which makes the civil war all the bitter. The southerners doing the actual fighting were all the poor white boys fighting for an ideal they would probably never reach and never be accepted, that of planter status. The planters sat at home (with notable exceptions of course)" keeping down" slave insurrections