In the late 1850s Senator Jeff Davis told Congress that if we didn't deal with the Cuban situation, we would be dealing with it a hundred years later. Looks like he was on to something.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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