[Thumper1960]

Bravo!

BTTT

[WoofDog123]

"What if the US had allowed NORIEGA to remain in power in Panama?"

Assuming that we also hadn't indicted him or placed banking sanctions on panama, it would probably be much as it was in 1985. You gotta wonder if a military government would have been more helpful in actually trying to negotiate continued use of Howard AFB and/or Fort Sherman.

[Archon of the East]

Outstanding!

[RDTF]

fantastic!

[2banana]

The Democrat lead U.S. Congress in the 1970s cut off funding to the War effort in Vietnam. That resulted in the beleaguered people of South Vietnam no longer being able to defend themselves. Those “Liberals” gave “peace a chance” alright, and more than 10 million people died at the hands of “peace loving” socialists and communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

And they welcome Castro with open arms when he visits America...

[WoofDog123]

"communist Stalin to reign supreme?"

It is notable in all fairness that we allowed him all of slavic europe and a part of germany and austria.

[TheRobb7]

"What if the US had allowed NORIEGA to remain in power in Panama?"

He'd have missed out on hearing Nancy Sinatra being played over CIA loudspeakers at 1,500 decibels.

That in an of itself was worth surrendering for. ;)

[Chena]

Truth and excellence; my two favorite combinations.

BUMP!

[kevkrom]

Whereas there is nothing more precious than peace, peace under Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, and a host of others would be a living hell, for those who survived.

My only complaint with the article is the there is one thing more precious than peace: freedom. He actually proves this point but fails to state it outright.

[Brainhose]

Fantastic column!

[The Great RJ]

How would these peaceniks have responded to Hitler and the Nazis? Would they make straight lines to the gas chambers while singing kumbaya?

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Well... you start putting Noriega and Hitler in the same category, and you’ve got a style of argument that will take you pretty much anywhere you want to go.

Also, if you want to play geo-political “What-If”, it’s wise to do this an awareness of something larger than a exclusively US perspective.

For example there is a persistent strain of conservative opinion in England – not by any means a majority, but a minority opinion which run down from the later 1930s right to the present , held by entirely respectable and respected politicians and historians (at least in England) - that London woud have done much better to have made a separate peace with Hitler (or at last seriously threatened to do so when bargaining for US aid) than to have exited WWII an economic vassal of the US.

(And please - don’t argue the point with me, I'm not the one making the argument.)

This view is of course anathema it conservatives here, but its worth remembering that our view of such matters – for example that Hitler and Stalin were irrational and unique evils - is not universal even amongst those we consider our natural political and ideological allies elesewhere.

[enotheisen]

There are two forms of peace: the peace that comes as a result of capitulation and enslavement and the peace that comes after the war is won. I prefer the latter to the former.

[AdmSmith]

Mainstream Americans can see that Sheehan is a pathetic loser as she and her fellow-traveling quislings show their true colors; and those colors are not red, white and blue.

Maybe only red?