The Empire Of Liberty Analysis

The War of 1812 is describe as one of the most needless of war that nobody like at the time besides the political governing bodies who support it. The cause of the war which was the impressment of US sailors was actually ended by British parliament right before they declared war. Gordon Wood in his book The Empire of Liberty describes and elaborates on this, “It turns out that many Americans did not want to go to war either; the leaders of the governing Republican Party were devoted to the idea of creating a universal peace and has spent the previous decade desperately trying to avoid war…it was the Republican party, which most loathed war and all that war entailed in taxes, debt, and executive power, that took the country into the war, and some Republicans did it with enthusiasm.” (Pg 660) This has similarity to many wars that the Americans have done from the Spanish – American War and the Mexican – American …show more content…
The modern war that one could attribute this quote of the book to our times in most definitely the Iraq War. The complications and buildup of the war completely based on happenstance and the lack of universal approval with the American people placing the positons of the governing body at the time. With the Iraq war we were fed misinformation that they had back the people that did 9/11 and that they had weapons of mass destruction both of which were false. Both of these wars are retrospectively speaking, irrevocably unnecessary as both of them were either unneeded and harm each of the sides equally. The War of 1812 was brought about the republican government that used the war as an exercise of legislative and executive power not unlike the modern Republicans under Bush did during the Iraq War were we as a country unilaterally invade a