There was a time when America was trending toward being not only a true bastion of liberty and equality for all, but also magnanimous in forgiving situations where forgiveness might have been hard to come by. Truthfully, Lincoln said it best, for when provided with the fair opportunity, after the deaths of well over 500,000 Americans, and billons upon billions of dollars of damage to this United States, made it his point to not just bury the hatchet, but to have an abiding interest in doing the right thing and re-uniting this nation so that it could become what it was meant to be from its inception, but could not be, because slavery at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the subsequent Constitution was the law of the land which precluded such, but with the conclusion of the Civil war, and the Amendments so added to that Constitution, a new birth of freedom thus awaited this nation. So then, when given the opportunity to make the South pay for its intransigence and for being wrong, Lincoln was of the mind to forgive and to heal up those wounds through charity, while also emphasizing that now was the time to do right and to firmly commit to that pathway.
Indeed, America is a nation that not just knows what is right, but has the capacity to do right, of which, instead of seeing this nation as a true melting pot, and thus uniting under the fabric of liberty and justice for all, thus being inclusive of all races, all religions, and all nationalities, has decided instead to essentially throw that away, and concentrate in its place divisiveness, hatred, vengeance, war, and pretty much the attitude that might makes right, and those that do not countenance that, aren’t true to this country -- which signifies that in today’s America there is a serious lack towards charity for all, and a distinct preference to embrace wrong over right, which will if it so continues along this path, mean the ultimate dissolution of this nation, and the collapse of everything that it ought and could have been.
This then is the threshold that America is at, to make that firm decision as to whether it will go forward and do what is right for humanity all over the world, by being a proper leader, and to also thereby care for the wounded and hurt within this nation, so as to improve the general welfare of the people in whole, or in lieu of such to take on the guise of the avenger, wreaking havoc throughout this world under the color that its actions are just, when they surely are not.
Those then that insist upon living by the sword are destined to die by it, for they have forsaken turning swords into plowshares and have instead believed that the only way to bring lasting peace is to war, which not only doesn’t make any sense, but is anathema to those that would desire for this nation to truly be that freedom-loving shining light perpetually lit upon the hill