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having to answer that question about war."
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I don't know.
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In that kind of disillusionment
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an interpretation that finds sheer politics
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and fanaticism and aggressive emotionalism,
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an overblown kind of--what did Randall call it--
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unctuous fury
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as the essential explanation of why the war came in 1861,
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can make a certain sense.
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There's a beguiling quality to that argument,
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when we look at the folly of human history
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and the folly of human nature.