Posted on 04/16/2004 7:58:53 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
The main mantra of the Democrats heading into the 2004 Presidential Election is that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq. The claim is that we would be better off if our effort were “multinational,” which means giving a veto power to national “friends” like the French. But a brief look at the history of World War II demonstrates that this claim is false.
This is one more instance when I want to jump through the TV screen, grab the reporters by the throat and demand of them, “Don’t you know where to find a library? Can’t you read?” A simple Google search on the Internet and a click of one button yielded the following information about the number of nations in the Allied Coalition, or “Allies,” who stood with the United States in the Great War.
On our side were the following thirteen nations at the outset of that war: Britain, France*, USSR, Australia, Belgium*, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark*, Greece*, Netherlands*, New Zealand, Norway*, Poland*, South Africa, and Yugoslavia*. Of course, as the Nazi attacks moved across the face of Europe, seven of these nations (* these) were conquered, and Nazi-compliant governments like the Vichy in France were installed.
So the bottom line was this: We fought and won WW II with six nations at our side. Obviously, by modern Democrat standards, we fought that war by “going it alone” since we had about one-fifth as many allies in WW II as we presently have in Iraq. Clearly, by Democrat standards, we should have stayed out of WW II until we could find more allies – perhaps through the League of Nations.
The League of Nations was, of course, a miserable failure at either preventing war or limiting its consequences. One of the most literate and moving speeches ever given to the League of Nations was the plea of Emperor Haile Selassie for help, as the Italian Army was invading his nation and slaughtering his citizens.
But the League of Nations was as institutionally incapable of dealing with the outbreak of WW II as its successor, the United Nations, is in dealing with this war. Hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered under the UN, with its so-called defensive troops remaining in their nearby barracks, just as hundreds of thousands were slaughtered on the watch of the League of Nations.
The Axis Powers consisted of an even smaller list than the Allies. The Axis consisted of six nations: Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Of these, only the first three were military powers of any consequence....
John / Billybob
John
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I give up. Anyone wanting to read the balance of this article will just have to click it up in a few days on my website, or on ChronWatch. Dunno what's wrong with FR tonight, but I cannot waste any more time struggling with the website.
John / Billybob
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