[Ohioan]

A few cuts-and-pastes could turn Webster's speech into a modern peace-leftist polemic about how the War on Terror is impeding the homegrown progress of Islamic societies toward civilized moderation.

Such a comment further illustrates the fact that you think that the ex cathedra pronouncement somehow trumps reason. There is nothing in Webster's speech, that has even the slightest bearing on the War on Terror or on Islamic societies. You are totally delusional.

For the convenience of anyone who wants to assess your thought processes, I repost the link: Daniel Webster Speech.

All of this silliness is motivated by something. Why do you hate your fellow Americans so much?

William Flax

[steve-b]

Since you are (poorly) feinging incomprehension, I'll spell it out more specifically:

Webster's "the slaveholders were radicalized by the abolitionists" argument is precisely the same sort of defeatist twaddle as the modern "the Muslim world is radicalized by the War on Terror" argument.