Read this excerpt from "not a dove, but no longer a hawk." despite these misgivings, i do not see how we can do anything but continue to prosecute the war. we can and should limit the violence and the suffering being inflicted on the civilians as much as possible, but for whatever reasons, successive administrations in washington have carried the commitment in vietnam to the point where it would be very difficult to prevent any precipitate retreat from degenerating into a rout. if the united states were to disengage from vietnam under adverse conditions, i believe that the resulting political and psychological shockwaves might undermine our entire position in southeast asia. which statement best describes the paradox in this excerpt?

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.