ANSWER:CAN THE WEST LEARN FROM ITS MISTAKES? CAN WE ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE HAD WE STOPPED HITLER IN 1938? CAN WE STOP IRAN NOW, OR MUST WE SUFFER THROUGH THIS CENTURY'S VERSION OF WW2 - ONLY NUCLEAR?
LOYOLA/NRO: Churchill understood, as so many pseudo-pacifists did not, that allowing Germany to alter the status quo in a way that gave it a huge offensive advantage guaranteed that the Nazis would attack when they were ready. He understood that the last moment for effective self-defense was Munich in 1938—when there was no imminent attack. The choice was preemption or appeasement. And likewise the choice Bush faces now. Waiting until an attack might be imminent is suicide.
Will Bush be another Chamberlain, or will he be another Churchill? There are plenty of Chamberlains around: Kofi getting an agreement from Assad to prevent Hizballah from are-arming comes to mind - as only the most recent of a whle series of Chamberlainesque acts, (like making deals with Kim Jong Il and letting Moki alSadr live).
Bush has until December 2008 to preemptively take out Iran's nuke assets. Between now and then he does niot have to run the table, but he has to keep the initiative. We are killing the enemy in Afghanistan, and things are getting better in Iraq. But if the GOP loses the House, the ALL BETS ARE OFF. WHY?! Because the Left-wing doves who run the Democrat Party and the House will do to the Iraqis and the Afghanis and the Israelis what they did to the South Vietnamese: cut funding, abandon them.
AND YEAH: I believe that the new New Democrat Party will abandon Israel because the new New DemocratParty is controlled by their wacky Left which believes the Mearsheimer crap. Which is why I think the GWOT will be won or lost in this years mid-term election. If the Democrats win then Osama wins.
AND YEAH: I believe that the new New Democrat Party will abandon Israel because the new New DemocratParty is controlled by their wacky Left which believes the Mearsheimer crap. Which is why I think the GWOT will be won or lost in this years mid-term election. If the Democrats win then Osama wins.
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If the Left wins in this election, then the Osama/Ahmadinejad wins the first battle.
The secone battle will be very fearsom, but we will win.
Tens of millions will be dead, maybe hundreds of millions.
And, the blood will be on the hands of the Left, although they will deny it, as they always do.
"Kissinger said – I wish I could find the exact quote – that past victories can lead to defeat because those past victories can appear to have been inevitable.
I worry that because Americans proved equal to the task of defeating the Axis is the 1940s, and because the Communists lost the Cold War, too many of us have come to think we will of course defeat the Militant Islamists or the Islamo-Fascists or Radical Jihadis or whatever term you prefer.
But the outcome of those other pastwars was not inevitable. Nor is the outcome of this one."
cliff may - corner/nro - tonight
I know it isn't inevitable. But, damn, we have a lot of ICBM's.
the dem house will do tot the iraqis and israelis and afghanis what they did to the contras and the south vietnamese.
and they will do for iran's nukes what they did for kim's: help them.
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