Posted on 02/18/2016 5:32:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Edited on 02/18/2016 6:04:50 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
World War II broke out when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A once preventable war had become inevitable -- and would soon become global -- due to three fatal decisions.
Most infamously, the Western European democracies had appeased Hitler during the late 1930s in hopes that he would quit gobbling up his neighbors. Unfortunately, the Nazis considered Western appeasement as weakness to be manipulated rather than magnanimity to be reciprocated.
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VDH should stick to writing about ancient Greece and Mexifornia. He’s become just another RINO GOPe shill. This country has been embroiled in endless war after endless war ever since the end of WWII, killing tens of thousands of our own people, bankrupting our national treasury, and destroying the Constitution, to no good purpose. There will always be conflict in the world, but the era of the US as “world policeman” must end. What he calls “isolationism” I call common sense.
I think the situation is worse than you describe. The United States dis-armed after WWI and after the victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan repeated the act of virtual disarmament, thus ALMOST defeated by tiny North Korea.
The isolationists and “anti-war” left caused the USA to fight in Vietnam in a way that would have assured our defeat in WWII, do everything but defeat the enemy. Europe, being Europe acted like Europe and did NOTHING, countries like Sweden actively siding and aiding North Vietnam.
At home, two generations of college students have been politically brainwashed into believing that it is THIS country that is at the root of the world’s problems. Thus our actions is Iraq is touted as the direct cause of the rise of ISIS. Even the butchery through the Middle East is blamed on our past actions.
Europe is busy surrendering to a relatively UNARMED invasion, and criminalizes the self-defense actions of its own citizens.
I think the correct date today is August 11, 1939.
I don't believe we are the policeman of the world. For those who think we should be, consider what we have accomplished doing this since WWII. When you accumulate those accomplishments, deduct what it has cost and then tell me it is has been worth it.
That said, that does not mean I support complete disarmament or not having a standing army (euphemism for a combined military force) as a deterrent to anyone attacking any of our strategic or national interests. I don't see this force as a lend lease program. We are not Hessians.
Says the noobie
DrPretorius
Since Nov 1, 2015
Why don't you go back to DU where you belong! You
You have got to be an utter ass to post what you just posted as some sort of “response” to my comments.
Victor; America has found out that we can have bread and bullets. What we can’t have is bread and bullets and bribes.
That is killing us.
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