2nd Last paragraph...
“World War II, with 16 million Americans out of 131 million in the military, brought together people from diverse backgrounds and hostile regions, and GI benefits gave veterans a leg up on attending college and buying homes. Good effects, but no sane person wants a total war.”
So Mr. Barone, are you only advocating a partial war?
Every once in a while, I will read some newspapers from 1858, 1859 and 1860...
No one saw what was coming. No one predicted in a short year or two that full scale civil war would be upon the land.
And we are even more divided now.