There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me. And the historians who study the confederacy really point to one is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation, and weve talked about this before. The vast majority of the population and the union are people who live on farms but especially in the confederacy states. Were dealing with a population thats overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. So this is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big irony here is that the foundations of the confederacy, the founding documents and the succession documents of the states before they joined the confederacy said we want a limited government with more power given to the states. And yet the confederate government is going to become stronger and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point in order to
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Thank you for joining us the u. S. And Afghan Taliban have signed a preliminary deal that could eventually end americas longest running war its the result of 18 months of talks but theres still a long way to go before peace returns to afghanistan the 1st stage of the agreement means that there should be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence that 1st stage also includes the exchange of about 6000. 00 prisoners the deal is being described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan its hoped it will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops well some of the reports. We destroy a new chapter move opened for afghanistan the United States has agreed on a deal that could see the complete withdrawal of its troops from its longest running war in the next 14 months. We recognize america should fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help afghan
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