What Lincoln taught us about war's wasted lives
Sen. Obama got in trouble the other day for saying this:
"We now have spent $400 billion dollars and have seen over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."He has apologized.
But really: don't you understand his point -- and agree with it?
Abraham Lincoln, a real war President, said it best:
"...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Does anyone believe that we have succeeded in bringing a "new birth of freedom" to Iraq? Does anyone believe that Iraq has a government of the people?
That said, do you really believe that our men and women didn't die in vain? That's not just a waste -- but a shame and a stain on our history.
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