Beneath the claim that this fight was not America's lies moral rot bequeathed to us by both liberalism and isolationism that have lost their way.

When Harriet Tubman, the great American abolitionist, was born in 1822, Thomas Jefferson was still alive. And when Tubman died in 1913, Richard Nixon had already been born.

I remember reading that odd factoid some time ago—and I really wish I remembered where, for I’d love to give credit to whoever wrote it. Alas, I don’t recall.

Yet though I don’t know…