So, when I first read this article I thought that Albert was a raving madman with nothing better to do than inflate his ego with his written thoughts on America's overall greatness. But then thanks to Mr. Bradley, (hay Mr. Bradley), I remembered the whole deal about Manifest Destiny. The idea that many Americans had during the time that this article was written that it was in fact America's Destiny ordained by God himself (!!!!) to basically take all of the land of what we now call the continental U.S. So after that I was able to understand our buddy Albie a little more.
Anyways, I think this is like the third blog in a row that I've basically said the same thing in, so I wanted to explain that to like, mix it up a little bit.
Where I think this article most strongly connects to the book is once again in the idea of Americans fighting wars for words or causes. In this particular article, the author talks a lot more about religious reasons for fighting wars, which were probsies much more common back then, seeing how it was a decidedly Christian nation, founded by Christians, etc. This led to the idea of Manifest Destiny and invading countries to take them over because dagnabbit God wanted us to! This was along the same lines of what Joe had problems with in his mental rant against drafts, the idea of men being forced to fight for such lofty ideals.
thank you very much.
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