Suppose you go to war.....

“Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.” Abraham Lincoln

I found this while doing reading for a report in one of my classes. It means so much to me. How foreboding of Abraham Lincoln. The only good from our Civil War was the freeing of the slaves, but the old issues and hatreds were still there after the war. Those hatreds were there for a long time. I wonder if this is what it will be like in Iraq a century later. Does peace really not work? I have to believe in my heart that a common ground can be found and that people can choose peace.