1. Mark Twain referred to the phrase “Our Country, right or wrong!” as an insult to the country for the following reason.
- American writer Mark Twain thought that politiciansr had decided to enter the war just by their personal agendas and political interest.
- Mark Twain called it "the little war," and he asked the reader to see the truth and perceive it as an insult to the United States.
2. Mark Twain described the role of the government in the following way.
- To Twain, politicians did not serve the citizen's interests.
- Politicians had political agendas as their priority, and they used mass media institutions such as the Press, to try to convince the people about the importance of the war.
- Twain said that the call to war had come from "the political class pulpit," through the War Department.
3. According to Twain, in a republic, the country is the people, not the government.
Mark Twain wrote that the politicians should be mere servants of the citizens, not the other way.
4. Is an inglorious peace better than a dishonorable war?
- Yes, in the perspective of Mark Twain.
- Twain said that people should never act against their convictions, no matter what.
- So honor was first, even in an inglorious peace.
We conclude that Mark Twain never supported the US entering the war, and severely questioned the politician's decisions that tried to manipulate the American people to convince them.
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