“If we’re going to turn this around, it will take a long time.”
Well, the War of Northern Aggression lasted 4 years, I suspect if there's a part 2 it would be shorter...
Which “War of Northern Aggression” are you talking about? The War Against Slavery, or the War Against Secession? In any case, the analogy doesn’t work. In Part 1 the slave owners and the secessionists were on the same side.