Most of us can't even imagine the pressure that war-time Presidents have. Lincoln, because it truly was brother against brother (have that situation in at least one, and possibly two, of my family lines)....The carnage was unimaginable. No drugs, no anesthetic, no helicopters, prisons were terrible (another of mine age 24, volunteered to go from his farm in Iowa, was in the battle of Pleasant Hill, LA, wounded, and died a month later in Confederate prison)....
Today, the pressure for GWB I think is different, but equally awful. Our very civilization depends on how we deal with the murdering barbarian threats.... There seem to be many who don't "really" think that the threat is "very" real. Those people don't want to believe what the terrorists tell us.
Well, our entire citizenry was guilty of that since 1979....We couldn't spell their names, we didn't want to think that they really wanted to kill ALL of us, etc etc....
9-11 woke most of us. Some like of those Copperheads of old, seem to be among the ones today, who want to cut and run. |
