The more I read about previous American wars, the less hope my little peacenik hippie heart has for our current endeavors.

Another quote taken from A People’s History of the United States:

The determination of our [...] President to prosecute the war, and the probability of his success in wrining from the people men and money to carry it on, is made evident frorm the puny opposition arrayed against him. No politician of any considerable distinction or eminence seems willing to hazard his popularity with his party… by an open and unqualified disapprobation of the war. None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks; and all seem willing that the war should be carried on, in some form or other.

Freed slave Fredrick Douglass on the Mexican War.

I can’t decide which is worse, that I as an American citizen who passed my history classes in school with flying colors didn’t realize that we waged war on Mexico to acquire California or that now one of the major political issues in said state is the inability for Mexican citizens to legally find work there.

Ugh.

I’ll just be banging my head into the wall if you need me.