NP: Vonnegut quotes Lincoln on Polk

[Steve Maas]

Interesting talk by Vonnegut.  Steve Maas

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Strange Weather Lately
By Kurt Vonnegut 5.9.03

[excerpt]

Lincoln was only a Congressman when he said in 1848 what I am about to echo. 
He was heartbroken and humiliated by our war on Mexico, which had never 
attacked us.

[...]

The person congressman Lincoln had in mind when he said what he said was 
James Polk, our president at the time. Abraham Lincoln said of Polk, his 
president, our armed forces’ commander-in-chief: “Trusting to escape 
scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military 
glory, that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood —that 
serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy, he plunged into war.”

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