With Neocons apparently calling the shots in the White House, and a President looking for "foreign adventures" to compensate for domestic frustrations, a "Trump war" somewhere/ anywhere now seems a real possibility. But war is never inevitable. Here are ten examples of times when America pulled back from the brink.
by Gilbert Cavanaugh
(1) Ever heard the phrase, "Fifty-Four
Forty or Fight" and wonder what on earth it means? Find a map and go to
where the fifty-fourth latitude line hits the New World's west coast and then
go forty minutes north. In the 1840s, that was where many wanted the border
between the Oregon Territory and British Canada to be - and they really
wanted it. In the end Polk decided that a war with Mexico would be
easier than one with the enormous British Empire.
