Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the memory of lincoln, the mention of his name, came like a refreshing breeze from off the prairie, blowing aside all the scholarly implications in which i had become so reluctantly involved, and as the philosopher spoke of the great american “who was content merely to dig the channels through which the moral life of his countrymen might flow,” i was gradually able to make a natural connection between this intellectual penetration at oxford and the moral perception which is always necessary for the discovery of new methods by which to minister to human needs. in this excerpt, the prairie is used as a symbol for slavery democracy the civil war abraham lincoln

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.