Written by: Beck

Students of history will note that one of Lincoln's chief difficulties in 1863-1864, was the effort of the Democrats to end the war with a negotiated peace with an independent Confederacy. Lincoln rejected such efforts, preferring instead to wage a war that would end with an inseparable Union of the United States. Just as the Democrats of that era complained bitterly about the nation's involvement in a wasteful and unwinnable war, today's Democrats look at the War on Terror, and our struggle in Iraq, and...well, the more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.