The Peace Democrats and the current conflict

During the American Civil War, some Democrats opposed the war and were willing to go to any lengths to reach a settlement over State's Rights and slavery up to and including disunion. These people were labeled Peace Democrats and were, history has shown, incorrect in their assumptions and posturing. Had they gotten their way, America might well not exist.
Maybe it's just as simple a matter as a lack of proper education about our Nation's history. May be it's historical revisionists making an impact, an unfavorable impact, on our people and our government.
Like trapping mercury, it seems increasingly difficult to corral the reasons for such rabid dissension on public display and in the media today. Is it an immigration issue? Are we allowing so many people in from nations whose core values differ so greatly from our own that our own values suffer corruption? This is a Biblical principle and one many of us have taught our children: Be careful who you hang around with. They may drag you down with them. Remember: Birds of a feather flock together.
I wonder if we wouldn't have a stronger, safer country if we did close our borders.
Why is it so strange that we should find ourselves, once again, in a struggle with Muslim forces? Doesn't anyone know about the battles America fought with the Barbary pirates on the southern coast of the Mediterranean sea shortly after we had won our independence from Great Britain?
Is this no longer taught in our schools? A short study of that brief conflict (still memorialized, by the way, in the Marine Hymn) would show the similarities between that one and the one we are currently in. The Muslim world hasn't changed. Neither have their doctrines. They still believe, as they did then, that all people who are not islam are infidels and are to be killed if they refuse to convert to Islam.
Here we are again in a position of defending our country after a foreign government sanctioned attack that cost the lives of more people than were lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II and there is such an amazing hue and cry against our government and our officials it is hard to grasp. World War I started over the assassination of one head of state; the Archduke Ferdinand was killed by a serbian anarchist. In that war alone, Germany lost over 1,000,000 men. The allies lost almost as many. During World War II, America lost over 440,000 men. The battle of Okinawa alone cost America's mother's and father's more than 50,000 of their sons in as little as a couple of months. We hear on a daily basis of the casualties from Iraq and it is sad. My heart breaks for those families who lost loved ones just as it did for the casualties I flew home with from Southeast Asia so long ago. Yet little more than a brief notice in the local paper is made of the casualties coating our nation's highways in blood. And our Federal, state, and local governments are to blame. They are more interested in the money to be made from liquor sales than the lives of our sons and daughters. Seldom do victims of crime make national headlines and bring about a national outcry unless it is a sensationalized one against children or women. So what is it that caused our forebears to suffer silently the outrageous casualties of America's past conflicts and causes us to so loudly decry the relatively few casualties that we have suffered in the current one? Was it their lifestyle? Were they so confident of better times they were willing to strive for it to the point of blood? If so, are we so jealous of our prosperity we are willing to sacrifice everything including our liberty and that of other people to keep it? It certainly seems so.
The world revolves on the demand for money whether it is government or the people. So it should be no surprise that we fight for it, whether in this country or any other. Yet there are those vocal ones that insist we refuse to fight; as long as they can maintain their own current lifestyle of excesses they are willing to turn the other cheek, even on National calamity. They use a number of excuses to lend credibility to their selfish posturing: The environment, diversity, tolerance, peace, etc.
We need more advocates of peace but not at the cost of everything. Just as everything else in life, peace has its price.