Thursday, September 07, 2006

A Third Way?

Newt Gingrich looks at Iraq and considers the lessons of Lincoln and the Civil War. An excerpt:

In April of 1861, in response to the firing on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for 90 days. Lincoln had greatly underestimated the challenge of preserving the Union. No one imagined that what would become the Civil War would last four years and take the lives of 620,000 Americans.

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