The Bigger Enemy to the US - Radical Islam or the Dem Party?

[Drummond]

I feel pretty confident in speaking on this subject since I have a PhD in History .

Lincoln would have happily kept blacks in slavery if it would have kept the Union together. His primary objective was avoiding a Civil War. He did not want war, for he knew the long term consequences would be devastating.

However once there was war he realized that there was no going back to any form of slavery.

He didn't free the slaves because he believed slavery was wrong, He did it from a pragmatic point of view. He fully realized that freeing the slaves was the ONLY way to heal this nation once the war was over.

H'm.

You're giving me precisely the opposite view of Lincoln than I've had. I've always believed that high principle was what drove Lincoln throughout his life.

OK, well, thanks. I'll go away and do a bit of research. Maybe I've more to learn.