After returning from a visit to the White House, the president of Red China said, “If Americans oppose our retaking of Taiwan they should take down every picture and statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC.”
This comment got very, very little coverage.
Because it was TRUE.
Just before the first Iraq War, the press reported that, when Hussein told an American diplomat that Iraq regarded Kuwait as an integral part of Iraq that must be reclaimed, the American told him that that was exactly how Lincoln had looked at it!
The media reaction to this past incident was interesting. At first it was shouted out as showing how dumb the Bush Administration was. But then they realize that it put their whole Lincoln Doctrine into question, and we have not heard of it since.
When Yugoslavia used force to keep ITS Union in one piece, they talked endlessly about The Lincoln Doctrine.
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