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Unless Biden wants a second term. It's past time anyway to dethrone James K Polk, often seen as the most successful OTP. He attained his goals by acquiring Texas and the Mexican session. But since then many people have questioned its morality and deplored the civil war that resulted. US Grant later wrote about the Mexican American War,…
Unless Biden wants a second term. It's past time anyway to dethrone James K Polk, often seen as the most successful OTP. He attained his goals by acquiring Texas and the Mexican session. But since then many people have questioned its morality and deplored the civil war that resulted. US Grant later wrote about the Mexican American War, "I was bitterly opposed ... and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."
Lincoln, then a Congressman, also objected in strenuous moral terms.