WW1 spawned the pacifism, defeatism and self-flagellation by the West - (by spawning post-modernism, and its concommitant cultural and moral relativism) - and it led directly to the policies of appeasement and that led to WW2.
The over-reaction to the horrific losses and casualties caused by WW1 is why so many in Europe to this day reject Western Civilization as a basically racist and bellicose enterprise which in their opinion has been and remains a blight on human history. It's the foundation of the Left's affinity to any non-Western belligerant who claims to have been wronged by the West - like the jihadomaniacs. They hate the USA because the USA is the defender of the West and they loathe the West; (the leftist dominated academy has taught them that the West caused Third World poverty and is causing Global Warming, two falsehOods). Bottom-line: The Great Satan for both the jihadomaniacs and the post modern Leftists is th USA.
I'm beginning to believe that a whole new generation of Westerners - folks born after Vietnam and not too aware of WW1, "THE X21 GENERATION" - is having a similar reaction to the Iraq War - despite the fact that the Iraq War is actually one of the least damaging wars the USA has ever fought. Many feel this way because of the relentless propaganda broadcast over-and-over-and-over again and again by the MSM - including all kinds of biased trumped up events, and fraudulent, photoshopped fauxtographs and staged events.
IOW: many people are exhausted by a war they have been told is unwinnable, and they "just wannna to go home." As if that was possible, feasible, and advisable.
Of course, it is not. Retreat is not any better than appeasement. Dhimmitude is servitude. And it would be the beginning of the end of the West.
We are still at the beginning of a Long War. One more than a thousand years old. Unless the West unites - and rallies behind our cause, the cause of liberty, we are doomed.
I advise my friends on the Left to do as the Labor Party did during WW2: they at least waited until the end of the conflict in the European Theater before turning against Churchill and the Tories.
If the US electorate elects a Democrat Congress this November, it would be like electing Chamberlain in 1942.
We have a choice: we can either turn back the clock to 1938 and appease the enemy, or we can turn up the heat on the enemy.
If we choose appeasement and retreat, the enemy will be emboldened and the ultimate battles will be worse than if we keep pressing them now.
Despite logic, and the proof of history, the Dem doves and appeasers might win in 2006: Appeasement is seductive. Most evil things are.
MORE HERE.
The over-reaction to the horrific losses and casualties caused by WW1 is why so many in Europe to this day reject Western Civilization as a basically racist and bellicose enterprise which in their opinion has been and remains a blight on human history. It's the foundation of the Left's affinity to any non-Western belligerant who claims to have been wronged by the West - like the jihadomaniacs. They hate the USA because the USA is the defender of the West and they loathe the West; (the leftist dominated academy has taught them that the West caused Third World poverty and is causing Global Warming, two falsehOods). Bottom-line: The Great Satan for both the jihadomaniacs and the post modern Leftists is th USA.
I'm beginning to believe that a whole new generation of Westerners - folks born after Vietnam and not too aware of WW1, "THE X21 GENERATION" - is having a similar reaction to the Iraq War - despite the fact that the Iraq War is actually one of the least damaging wars the USA has ever fought. Many feel this way because of the relentless propaganda broadcast over-and-over-and-over again and again by the MSM - including all kinds of biased trumped up events, and fraudulent, photoshopped fauxtographs and staged events.
IOW: many people are exhausted by a war they have been told is unwinnable, and they "just wannna to go home." As if that was possible, feasible, and advisable.
Of course, it is not. Retreat is not any better than appeasement. Dhimmitude is servitude. And it would be the beginning of the end of the West.
We are still at the beginning of a Long War. One more than a thousand years old. Unless the West unites - and rallies behind our cause, the cause of liberty, we are doomed.
I advise my friends on the Left to do as the Labor Party did during WW2: they at least waited until the end of the conflict in the European Theater before turning against Churchill and the Tories.
If the US electorate elects a Democrat Congress this November, it would be like electing Chamberlain in 1942.
We have a choice: we can either turn back the clock to 1938 and appease the enemy, or we can turn up the heat on the enemy.
If we choose appeasement and retreat, the enemy will be emboldened and the ultimate battles will be worse than if we keep pressing them now.
Despite logic, and the proof of history, the Dem doves and appeasers might win in 2006: Appeasement is seductive. Most evil things are.
MORE HERE.
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Interestingly enough I have just posted some pics of my grandfather on my blog, at http://alfiegoodrich.blogspot.com
Cyril fought on the Western Front, in India and in Mesopotamia [now Iraq] as a 19 year-old private in the Machine Gun Corps.
I always find it fascinating and saddening that he was fighting there with the British Army in 1916 and 90 years later our troops are still there. In many ways, probably, mopping up after the mess that our colonial aspirations and imperial invasions created all that time ago.
Afghanistan is the same; back in 1842 [i think that was the year] the British Army suffered, apart from at the first morning of the Somm, its worst defeat. 16,000 troops and camp followers massacred in a wadi as they tried to leave the country under what had been a negotiated withdrawal with the Afghans.
Do we never learn? When are we going to impress upon our politicians the importance of long-termism, so that we do not tread in the same dog turd each generation we walk around the block???
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