Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Upon the Altar of the Nation is Stout's argument that unprecedented destructiveness of the civil War generated what he calls an American civil religion.

也许《祭坛上的民族》最让人感兴趣的是Stout的论点，前所未有的破坏性内战产生了他所说的美国公民信仰。

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History is all about argument, and the issue of when the turning point of the war was stimulated a lively debate about the relative importance of key moments in the conflict.

历史需要争论，我关于战争转折点的论点将有效地激发关于战争相对关键点的辩论。

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So,the argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change."

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Add to that the fact that the judge has barred him from making the argument that the war is illegal, and there's not much left for this court martial to do but determine his punishment.

NPR: War Critic Watada Faces Court Martial

That is certainly the case - and it is an argument that is put into practice every day in The Hague at the international war crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

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There's something a little trite about the argument that this is "a new way of war".

BBC: Obama ends the long war