Sometimes it takes a war monger to truly make peace and therefore Donald’s Trump statement that Andrew Jackson could have stopped the civil war is quite thought provoking. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner but much has been written about that he was an ideal slave owner and had true compassion for their condition. So could a slave owner be one that could have peacefully ended the slave trade and slowly but surely started a movement to bring about their liberation in a way that could have prevented the abuses that continued 100 years after their freedom maybe so? People are more likely to move to listen to those who understand “their lifestyle (as hideous as it was) then those who would impose their lifestyle on them. That is why is South Africa a white leader of Apartheid was able to peaceful end such practice and might be why (G-D willing) a tough leader on North Korea might actually find a long term peaceful solution to this problem. We will never fully know whether Andrew Jackson would actually have moved in the right direction but it still is a question great minds should discuss so that we can continue to learn.