Let my country die for me.

It is called destruction before reconstruction. People will have to see the danger of war, the hopelessness of war, before things can improve.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

The polarization and animosity were far deeper on the eve of the Civil War than it's ever been. The 'red state-blue state' divisions of today [referring to the 2000 presidential election where maps denoted in blue states that backed Democrat Al Gore and in red for Republican George W. Bush] or the cultural wars over abortion, gay rights or other issues are far more superficial than the events of the 1850s.

The price war is disruptive and not sustainable over the long run.

Everyone was looking for a war that was going to be over very quickly, and it's not appearing that way,