Recent history suggests that it is foolish for Western powers to fight wars in other people’s lands and that the U.S. intervention was almost certainly doomed from the start.
since fort sumpter so how do we move through this? how do we find the light, how do we find the will to change hearts, to change laws, to enforce laws in order to keep this experiment going. an experiment that has to be about a more perfect and more just union. so my bad on board parallel was about the sinking of the lucitania, tell us about it. there s no larger event arguably in human history than world war i. i once asked david fromkin, the historian, he was writing about his fifth or six book on world war i. i say why do you go back to world war i? he said, why would anyone write about anything else. and lusitania, that day was like
moment. that s what i was thinking of when he was speaking about this. the texas democrats, i don t know how it s going to work out. this is one of them said an alamo moment, this is their stand, they re going to try to do whatever they can to make it known, because nay don t have the power to force this, but make sure they don t go down without a fight and try to support voting rights however they can. i don t know what s going to happen. i m a historian, i look at the past, my thinking will be that it will take, again, a moment, as i said before, when people realize that democracy is in peril, and that this should not be a partisan issue at all. the voting rights act was a nonpartisan issue, bipartisan issue for the longest amount of time and we should go back to that moment when we understand the importance of voting for every american who is eligible to vote.