Reply #15: the "wise" detest war. War is the first resort of a fool.... [View All]

[Jeffersons Ghost]

A wise leader only commits troops to battle after long and careful soul-searching, analysis. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent and a last resort of the wise.

It would also have been easier to let the South have her way and the National Bank to have hers.

Peace-loving Lincoln rarely took the easy way out, simply because it benefited him. Letting Mary have her way, in his day, had social consequences and took the very same courage he clearly showed in the execution of his duties as Commander-in-Chief.