[aimhigh]

My point is basically is, in the period of history, his actions did not appear so severe as they do from the vantage of OUR point in history.

That is not a valid excuse for inhuman actions, in any period of history. America was established by people fleeing persecution in Europe. They knew what civilized governance was.

[fruser1]

It’s not an excuse, it’s an attempt to establish context.

Do you think that Roosevelt should be taken off the dime because of Japanese Internment camps?

Should Lincoln come off the 5 for his suspension of habeus corpus?