The answer is God is in charge not man and if he deems that war is necessary then we as a nation must complete it.
Lincoln's speech was not about gloating nor rejoicing. He talked about his deeply thoughts about the war.
He said that the "scourge of war", for him was divine punishment, because of the sin of slavery.
As he said: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle [...]"
The correct answer is Secretary of State
Explanation: The Secretary of State is the title of the head of the United States Department of State, who deals with foreign affairs.
That would be the United States! Russia is a massive country and spans the northern portion of Eurasia reaching from eastern Europe to the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeast Asia. That peninsula is bordered by the Bering Strait, the body of water that separates Russia from the State of Alaska.
