Posted on 12/09/2006 9:18:37 AM PST by Congressman Billybob
It is early 1943. The Nazi Study Group has just released its Report on how to get out of the entanglements of WW II in Europe. There was no such study group, I hear you cry. But if there had been, based on the evidence of the Iraq Study Group Report, heres how it would have gone.
The war in Europe is going poorly, and getting worse. The Nazis have beat the snot out of the Allies in Europe (threw us off the continent, in fact). The Nazis are beating the snot out of our Allies in North Africa. Field Marshall Rommel is running rings around General Montgomery.
Its time for the US to look for an exit strategy. This war cannot be won. When the New York Times, the Democrat Party, and a small but mouthy gaggle of retired generals agree that a war cannot be won, well that settles it, doesnt it?
So what should we do? Those English people who are holding out against the Nazis need deadlines. Never mind the bombs falling on London every night. Never mind the ships with food and ammunition going to the bottom every day in the North Atlantic. Those lazy Brits need an ultimatum. Either they shape up or we pull the plug on em. The US should set deadlines on when it is going to withdraw its soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. Deadlines should not depend on what is, or is not, happening at the time in the war against the Nazis.
Furthermore, we need to internationalize this war. The US went into WW II with exactly six allies. Thats it, just six. Any fool, plus John Kerry, Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi, knows that you cannot win a war with only six allies.
Other nations need to be drawn into the planning on how to end this war, without American further bloodshed. Other countries like Vichy France and Norway under Quisling should be brought into immediate negotiations. (For the history-challenged, occupied France was governed by the Vichy; occupied Norway by the government including Quisling. Both governments were officially neutral.)
Perhaps with the aid of France and Norway, the US can negotiate an end to the hostilities on a reasonable basis. The Nazis can keep all of Eastern and Western Europe, plus Russia if they want it, so long as they promise to leave England and the US alone. That should cause the Nazis to cease their hatred of the US. While theyre at it, the negotiators should settle the differences between the Nazis and the Jews. That pesky problem has been contributing to the larger problems between the Nazis and the world.
Of course, whether the Nazis would keep their word, or would just build up their forces until England would fall into their hands like a ripe plum as did Czechoslovakia did in 1939 might puzzle some readers of the Report of the Nazi Study Group.
Shortly, of course, the Report of the Tojo Study Group on WW II in the Pacific, will be released. If it follows the same thinking, it should recommend that the US, in consultation with the puppet governments in China, Manchuria and Korea, should end its hostilities against Japan, and retreat to Australia and New Zealand, with a promise that each side will not bother the other any more.
The Japanese can expect to keep their word on such matters. Other than that unfortunate business at Pearl Harbor, their military have always been scrupulous men of their word.
The entire national press failed to provide any sort of historical perspective on the Report of the Iraq Study Group, this week. The final line of the first article on Thursday 7 December, in USA Today. The Nations Newspaper, offered a pathetically accurate commentary on ignorance of military/historical matters. It said: The studys release came on the same day that 10 US soldiers were killed in Iraq....
This implies a high death rate, that the US should run screaming into the night to end such slaughter. The truth is, in most major battles in WW II, WW I, and some in the Civil War, the death rate of Americans was 10 or more soldiers killed every fifteen minutes, not every day. Those who are doing the fighting today understand and accept the risks they are all volunteers, and are coming forward in numbers to fill the ranks.
The only reason for USA Today to refer to the 10 deaths, with absolutely no context, is to prejudice the American public against continuing the war to victory. Similar historical bigotry applies to much of the press. Read your own local newspaper. See if it shows similar bias. Then check the byline for AP, for Associated Press.
We are fortunate that there was no Nazi Study Group, and no press and no ignorant minority party clamoring for it, in WW II. If there had been that, plus a Tojo Study Group, Americans east of the Mississippi would be speaking German, and Japanese west of that River. But thats just the opinion of one guy whos read a history book or two.
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About the Author: John Armor is a lawyer specializing in constitutional law, who may again be a candidate for Congress in the 11th District of North Carolina. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
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John / Billybob
Unconditional surrender. Same as in WWII. Those are oour terms.
Brilliant article.
The problem is *WHO* do we get to surrender to us?
Wonderful and astute analogy!!
"... surrender to us"
You must be kidding .. we're not worthy to be surrendered to .. really. We have only fed the world, and rescued the world, that's not good enough.
Thanks for the post, John, from another guy who has read a history book or two. This was spot on!
Excellent!
And on December 7, 2006, while ten soldiers lost their lives, how many sailors lost their lives 65 years earlier??
Very good!
However, I'm afraid the WOT today is more like 1938 in Europe, not 1943. The heavy fighting is still around the corner, as is the slaughter of millions of Jews.
You make the error of comparing all out war in 1943 Europe to our standing around in Iraq between opposing forces and getting blown up without taking the battle to the enemy. If we were massively bombing Al Qaeda and killing off Sadr's Madi Militia maybe Americans would be more supportive of the war. But at present I dont see American troops taking the war to anyone, just patrolling up and down the same streets as targets for road side bombers.
The difference is that by then in WWII the danger was clear, at least to the Brits, while at this point, most people don't see the danger yet. We are at a stage similar to say 1938 -- in denial. If they hit us hard again, though, the sh*t will hit the fan.
The good news is, what with the tech advances of the last 60 yrs, the Jews will not be alone in the slaughter, and the war will only take a few miliseconds.
Mark
Very thought provoking and God knows we need some serious thoughts to be provoked in light of the shallow PC puss that's been oozing around the report this thread is a take-off of!!!
Unconditional surrender. Same as in WWII.That's exactly what the Left and the Media are working for. Unconditional surrender. And they seem to be getting their way.
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