Morris on Lincoln

Jan Morris (Commentary, Feb. 10) writes that when Abraham Lincoln struggled to save the Union during the Civil War, his hope was that “the United States must be powerful enough to impose its example on everyone else.” Does Morris really believe that Lincoln could foresee the decline of the British Empire, the rise of Germany followed by its defeat in two world wars and the Cold War that culminated in the economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union? Or is this just more blind anti-Americanism of the type that the politically correct Times loves to peddle?

T.A. HEPPENHEIMER

Fountain Valley