“鑄劍為犁”的海市蜃樓問題

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------林肯少死些人的願望是好願望,但是被現實冰回----書抄與借題。

不久前“糯米粥”網友講了作者Jon Meacham 的一本書,“And There Was Light”,是關於老老老總統林肯的故事。此書本老漢也在讀,覺得其中的一段對此刻的時政有借鑒意義。是說在1865年初,林肯二次當選,修憲的第13修正案(廢奴法)在國會兩院通過,第二任期即將開始。林肯才去會過“南方和平代表團”,“和平”沒談成。林肯回到華盛頓,給他的內閣提了個建議,有如下一段:

On his return to Washington, Lincoln drafted a message proposing a $400 million compensation plan for slave owners in the seceded states.  The money would be paid on two conditions.  Half of the sum would be forthcoming if “all resistance to the National authority shall be abandoned and cease, on or before the first day of April.”  The rest would be distributed “only upon the amendment of the National Constitution recently proposed by Congress becoming valid law, on or before the first day of July.”  The president was offering the white South a bribe (or, more kindly, an incentive) to lay down their arms and to embrace, with compensation, abolition under the terms of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The cabinet unanimously opposed the president.  “It did not meet the favor, (and) was dropped,” Gideon Welles (海軍部長) told his diary.  “The earnest desire of the President to conciliate and effect peace was manifest, but there may be such a thing as overdoing as to cause a distrust or adverse feeling”---particularly in the Republican-controlled Congress(林肯一方的執政黨).  According to Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, Lincoln was “somewhat surprised” at the opposition.  “How long will the war last?” the president asked the cabinet. When no one replied, he said: “A hundred days. We are spending now in carrying on the war three millions a day, which will amount to all this money, besides all the lives.”  Greeted by silence, Lincoln gave up.  “But you are all opposed to me, and I will not send the message.”

不全翻譯了。簡單的說就是林肯向他的內閣建議,給南方的所有“奴隸擁有者”發放4億美金,讓他們停止反對聯邦政府並放棄“奴隸”。實質上的“買和平”構想。結果他的內閣全體反對。林肯說,現在打仗一天化3百萬,少打100天的仗錢就省出來了,還少死許多人,Why Not? 內閣不同意,我林肯就撤議了。

這個嗎………

俯視眾人的政治家如林肯,也改不了現實。他的建議,聯邦政府這邊的“勢力”(士兵以上的軍人們為代表)不買賬。打了快四年的仗,兄弟父兒死了那多(當時無女兵,^_^),怎麽也得看到南方的“叛亂分子”被徹底擊倒的那一刻。4億美金?門兒都沒有!

而對手的南方叛軍也不會同意。戰敗可以,在家鄉還是英雄。投降嗎,在家鄉的輩分就都丟了。

於是那個“鑄劍為犁”建議被消失於無形。而且,俯視眾人的政治家林肯不久也被南方叛軍的一位“自幹同誌”,演員 John Booth 給暗殺了。

鑄劍為犁,曆史上是一個“理想百年後”,對此刻的“俄烏戰爭”和“以哈對仗”依然是一個“理想百年後”。將來,還會是。

永遠的“理想”。海市蜃樓。

政治不是“會計”,賬麵上有利沒用,死的人的一個不能少。沒轍。

後注:非常注重實際狀況,並“俯視眾人”的政治家林肯一定明白“鑄劍為犁”的可笑性,他的提議,應該隻是在自己的政治高峰處亮出了內心的那一縷“詩情畫意”。He couldn’t be serious, I just don’t believe it.

後注2:此刻,作為美國,最好的“犁”,應該是“B21”,“一劍無痕”那種“犁”。

後注3:劍兄,回來侃大山。那個“B21”的長相與三蹦子神似,^_^。但物不可貌相,此“三蹦子”才是“遙遙領先”,*_*。