Talk:Charlie Fixico

I really don't remember much about Ramsay's adventures, which is probably not surprising. I am however somewhat amazed that the Creek were allowed to maintain a standing army independent of the Confederate General Staff, even to the point of being allowed to launch invasions of the US without coordinating them with the CS Army general responsible for the area. Not only that, they're able to shanghai Confederate soldiers into taking part in their army. Yes, Fixico did need to call in a couple of favors in Richmond when Lincoln complained, but this is still pretty incredible.

And don't tell me about states' rights, either. I might have expected this from someone like Joe Brown in the first generation of Confederate independence, but by this point in TL-191 the CS had become about as centralized as the US, if not as regimented. True, it had not yet gotten to the point where presidents could declare martial law to punish states for electing governors from opposition parties, but there's a pretty wide gap between that and local militias being allowed to use national War Dept personnel and resources to conduct their own invasions of foreign countries.

And, let's not forget, the Creek Nation wasn't even a state government! The CS may have had a pretty good record on respecting tribal sovereignty compared to the US's, but allowing them so exalted a status still strains credibility.

And if the CS were going to put up with that sort of thing, why didn't they encourage the Five Civilized Tribes to attack and harass US border settlements in peacetime? Afraid they'd get caught with their hands in the cookie jar? Turtle Fan 16:03, April 6, 2011 (UTC)