Thought for the Week

I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold. I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'

--Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Essence magazine, comparing the war in Iraq with the American Civil War and explaining why slavery might have lasted longer if the North had decided to end the fight early.