The more things change...

Concessions to the Confederacy... Concessions to the Soviets... Concessions to Cuba... Concessions to Iraq ... Concessions to Iran...

Wrong then, wrong today.

"Peace Democrats known as Copperheads were eager to oust Lincoln in the 1864 election in order to end the war through concessions to the Confederacy, and Lincoln's 1863 drafts were highly unpopular. Governor Curtin warned Lincoln that political sentiments were turning against the war effort"

Lauren Self Portrait Summer 2008

Lauren - Summer 2008

That, detective is the question.

"What Castro really wanted was buried deep in his list of demands: that the U.S. provide trade credits to buy whatever he wants — with our money. Given his record of default, he seeks what will amount to a bottomless aid package, even as his regime's political prisons remain filled. What kind of regime would turn down free aid and insist on stealing it instead? Only one that puts its own survival above that of its people." Read it here

Halloween 2007

 

Ed Gonzalez St. Pete Beach 2006