If you could travel back in time and intervene at one moment in history what would you do? That was the question columnist Michael Gove asked ina recent Times of London piece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/
michael_gove/article6549539.ece)
He tries to answer this question:
”Assassinate Hitler? Stop Lenin getting on that train to the Finland Station? Slip something in Mao’s rice wine before he got the idea of the Cultural Revolution?
”My own hunch is you could avert the need for all of the above if you got between Gavrilo Princip’s bullet and Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Almost all the miseries of the last century can be traced to the greatest civilisational catastrophe of all time – the First World War…There was a madness abroad in Europe in 1914… Prewar Europe was a uniquely liberal and civilised place. And it was all swept away, in a ceremony of blood that ushered in eight decades of oppression.
“So I’d wrench the gun out of Princip’s … hand. And this is where the argument begins. I defy readers to think of a better use of a rent in history’s tapestry.”
So now, dear reader, the question is in your corner? If you had the power, what would you do to change history?
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i think i would have like to have been the nagging doubt for the south not to wage world against the north. if someone had just stopped and thought about who we were fighting not another country but each other.
That war seems to haved effected everything that has happened in amercia even up to modern times. If we had truely believed that all men and women were equal in the 1800’s we could have been so much farther with everyone living the american dream not just some.