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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (291975)	8/31/2002 1:15:20 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

<<Grant and Sherman accepted this premise and changed the way they insired their armies to victory.>> That part is the most incredible piece of hutzpah I have ever seen...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (291975)	8/31/2002 2:50:14 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Lincoln is an enigma. Mencken writes in regards to the Gettysburg Address. "It is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination--that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination: it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision of the rest of the country--and for nearly twenty years that veto was so efficient that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary." He did seem to change his mind so it is difficult to pin him down and state his beliefs categorically. Once made a hero it is difficult to reconcile his human side. The same questions can be asked of John Brown. Once deemed "crazy" by history, we are unable to rationally discuss his actions. There are many parallels to the Arab-Israeli conflict IMO.