John Kelly expressed regrets that the US didn't reach some sort of "compromise" about slavery in 1860.

This is the same false-equivalence veil for bigotry that the troll has used.

The US Congress made a series of compromises over slavery in the decades preceding the Civil War. (See the Missouri Compromise in Wikipedia.) The effect of these compromises was to perpetuate slavery, and that would have been true in 1860, 1880, 1900, and 2000 if the North hadn't said "No more compromises."

Frackers in the UK are seeking a sweeping injunction against all sorts of protesters, to imprison them.

When peaceful protests are broadly forbidden, you can't criticize people for turning to violent opposition.

Inhabitants of low-lying Pacific islands have implored Australia not to fund the proposed new giant coal mine.

This mine would also speed the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

More about the Whitefish scandal.

Afghan Women Beg Key Question: What on Earth Has This War Accomplished?

They don't appreciate any extra freedom that foreign intervention has given them, perhaps because it isn't much freedom, or because in practice they don't dare exercise it.

One thing that they desperately needed, but didn't get, is birth control so that they could avoid having the children that they now can't feed.