Posted on 03/21/2003 9:05:43 AM PST by HamiltonJay
The liberation of the Iraqi people has begun, after the slaughter of 2 Million Iraqis, countless wars and aggression against his neighbors, decades of abject oppression of the most fundamental human rights, untold violations of the Geneva Convention and UN Resolutions, the end of Saddam and his regime the terror is at hand. US and British forces once again bring liberty to the oppressed.
One would think after the untold death and oppression of the late 19th and early 20th century the lessons of appeasement would be learned. One would also think the complete and total failure of communism would also be widely universally accepted. Fortunately in America largely these lessons have been learned, our troops have had to mop up the messes, including the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CORPSES, created by these failed ideologies. Europe doesn’t care about the clean up their failed policies, because its been a long time since they have had to clean them up, that’s a job they leave for us Yanks.
Sadly the much of the world has not learned this lesson and it appears that the nations that have learned the least about dealing with despots are the same nations that created the 3 antichrists of Europe. The nations that unleashed Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin upon the world have been the most vociferous advocates of leaving Saddam and his regime in power.
I guess in a way I can see their side, I mean, why worry about Saddam slaughtering 2 million, after all, their past leaders butchered nearly 200 Million, …. I guess in the face of that, what is a paltry 2 million souls? What is cutting out the tongue of those who speak against the dictator in the face of the Gulags and Concentration camps? What is raping a 4 year old girl, or gouging out her eyes, in front of her parents in comparison to this? What is rounding up those who oppose you and making them disappear in the face of French collaboration with Hitler’s Holocaust? At least the Iraqis rounding up those souls who will die, are doing so at the orders of another Iraqi, not a German. What’s to care about Saddam’s desire to control a few desert countries in the middle east? When your actions have destroyed CONTINENTS. I guess to the nations who unleashed these horrors upon the world, Saddam is just a want to be.
Fortunately we in America do not have a history of despot leaders, as much as some left over communist activist rhetoric may claim. We do have a long history of cleaning up the messes that European foreign policy creates. It is our money and humanitarianism that liberated and rebuilt Europe… (BTW France, you guys still have a large outstanding balance… have you made your payments lately?) our refusal to back down in the face of the USSR and our concerted and sustain efforts that toppled the Evil Empire and liberated the nations of eastern Europe and the Soviet block. It has been our humanitarian efforts that have helped these fledgling nations rebuild as well. It was also our troops and forces that prevented more of the world from falling under its iron curtain. Do not get me wrong, I do not wish to portray that our Allies around the world did not aid in these efforts, or that the people of these nations did not sacrifice greatly as well to bring about these things… however the goodness of the American people and often the willing sacrifice of American lives (who’s graves French “anti war” protestors pissed on a few weeks ago.) contributed greatly to them all.
Britain, I say today thank God for Britain. Her influence and greatness cannot be ignored. She has been our greatest ally in the expansion of liberty, while we may not see eye to eye on all things, we have always stood shoulder to shoulder against the tyranny of the old guard. Sadly the people of Britain at times become confused and find themselves sucked into the old Europe arguments of the continent, Chamberland’s “peace in our time” appeasement strategy for instance in the face of Nazi Germany, and sadly the current affair regarding Saddam. However, she and her leaders have learned from the past, they understand what is at stake. Blair has distinguished himself among men in recent times, and like Churchill before him is not yet recognized by the public for the righteousness of his stand. I believe in time Bush/Blair will be remembered like Roosevelt/Churchill and Reagan/Thatcher, a testament to Liberty.
The influence and greatness of America cannot be denied, our hand can be felt around the globe, or products are desired and recognized around the world, our military might is unparalleled and unprecedented, our humanitarian aid is unequalled, we are the world’s super power and naturally resentment and envy of our success is to be expected particularly by those who at one time had, or recognize they never will have such influence or might. The nature of man is a universal constant. I have no problem with those who resent America, and wish to voice that dissent… I do however have great trouble with those who try to portray their resentment of America as something other than what it is, something nobler, something greater… Something like “Peace” or “anti-war” rallies.
I ask those who resent our success, ask yourselves, how did become the world’s superpower? Why is it that our troops are around the world, that our products and movies and music are recognized and desired around the world? Just why is it a nation that less than 100 years ago, largely agricultural and isolationist in less than 100 years become the most influential not only on the planet at this time, but in the history of humanity? How did we go from a nation telling the western world largely “Stay out of our Hemisphere” to providing protection and peace to nearly all the worlds Hemispheres? Did we go out with our sword drawn with desires of empire building and world domination? No, we didn’t come to Europe to CONQUER and ANNEX..
We came in 1917 after years of trying to stay out of Europe’s mess though many states in Europe asked for our entrance we stayed out, the Lusitania and Sussex were sunk by German U-Boats and still we stayed neutral. Only after Germany attempted to directly attack the United States by proxy of Mexico did the people of the United Stated reluctantly come to Europe, at the urging as well from Gemany’s enemies. Our troops ended the meat grinder that Europe had created, with her old world mentality and ignorance, and for the most part left Europe to rebuild of its own accord, sadly arrogant French ready for the spoils of war, and punishment of Germany, instead of setting up a lasting and real peace, set the seeds for the next conflict, even in victory France can find a way to mess things up.
In 1942 once more our troops came to Europe, again the United States tried to militarily refrain from entering more Old World Quagmire, decades of appeasement and capitulation in the face of a despotic regime in Germany had come to roost, this was Europe’s battle not ours we would support our Allies, but not fight their war. Then once again we were brought kicking and screaming into the quagmire old Europe’s diplomacy had created. Japan, part of Germany’s Axis bombed Pearl Harbor, instead of studying and learning from America, Japan became a student of Europe, and quickly found Despotism to its liking, slaughtering thousands in Asia, turning entire generations of Chinese into Opium addicts, raping and pillaging as they went. After years of being asked to come, and years of trying to stay out, the US would once again return to Europe, and once again return after being asked to come. This time however we not only liberated Europe in our wake, we liberated the South Pacific, North Africa, parts of Asia, and yes, even the Middle East. And in each liberated city and town our troops entered, they were greeted with cheers and kisses, Where German, Italian and Japanese troops had handed out death and oppression, our troops handed out liberty and candy. Where the French had surrendered rather than fight for their liberty, America not only fought for her liberty, but the liberty of millions of strangers around the world.
Ironically it was the ending of this liberation that brought us face to face with our next Despot, in the wake of war Russia and its despotic regime sought to rebuild Europe in its Image… an image that largely mimicked the same failed Old Europe of the past… while the US was not ready to stomach another war, after all weren’t the Russian’s our allies, make no mistake, many here recognized the USSR even then for what it was, and more than a few did advocate going all the way to Moscow. However there was a world to rebuild and a war tired planet, this war would be fought, make no mistake and America and American’s once again would lead the fight, the war would be different, but its objectives remained the same. Liberty vs Despotism, and we would not lose. It was this threat the kept our troops in Europe and deployed around the world, largely by invitation of the hosting countries, no matter how much French or German protestors may have ranted… they knew there very freedoms were being defended once again by American might and blood.
The cold war was a different kind of war, but make no mistake it was a war none the less. NATO largely with US support and backing kept Europe free, and troops around the world help keep the Evil Empire in check… Then a new policy arose, containment would not suffice, containment was old world, containment had allowed Hitler to come to power, containment had allowed the USSR and Stalin to Flourish… no containment would not be accepted, Liberty MUST prevail… and this new policy was roundly criticized by old Europe, why provoke the Russians… who cares if 100 Million had been killed in the Gulags, who cares if they oppressed hundreds of millions of people who cares if they threaten the liberty of all mankind? Once again old world Europe could not see the truth before it. America and her allies, and there is no greater Ally than Britain forced the USSR to defend its existence… to prove itself, to morally justify its reason for being… and like any Despotic regime, it could not, the conscious and sustained escalation of the cold war broke the back of the Iron Curtain… the wall fell. And just like before America and Americans not only helped defeat the despots and liberate the oppressed but helped rebuild.
America became a world power by bringing freedom, not oppression. We did not force our influence upon the world, we liberated the world and it willingly accepts our influence because it has seen the other side. We rebuilt the world and have asked for nothing more in return than to ask those liberated to protect that liberty. We are not the Communist Iron Curtain expanding via sword, subjugating nations, demanding loyalty and taxes, our greatness is that we have expanded via peace… Anyone not proud to be an American in matters of our history or foreign policy is patently IGNORANT.
Now we face Saddam, another despot with delusions of grandeur, who idolizes Stalin and uses methods even his idol would not have to keep his power, and in the overwhelming history of US warfare In modern times, and our track record of liberating people who have no hope or ability to liberate themselves we find a wave of protestors shouting some of the most asinine slogans ever, and making arguments for there stand that would take several additional IQ points just to reach the asinine level. They are patently anti-American, which anyone has the right to be, but instead of just admitting that is what they are, that they hate America because she is so great, they hate she has the influence she has, the power she has, the freedom she has, they want nothing more than to see her destroyed… they try to pretend that they are protesting for PEACE…because they can “sell” that to the ignorant dupes… but no one else is buying.
Our troops will enter Baghdad, and other cities across Iraq… its not a matter of IF, it’s a matter of only When. They will be greeted once again by the newly liberated cheering and kissing them and celebrating their arrival. Iraq’s illegal weapons will be found, and you can bet bottom dollar “made in Germany” and “made in France” stickers will be all over them. The oil fires will be put out… the nation will be rebuilt. The torture chamber’s of Saddam will be found and put on TV for all the world to see.. the Execution videotapes Saddam watches before going to bed will be found and broadcast… his support of terrorist groups will be shown…. His atrocities will be exposed for the whole world to see…. And these left over anti-American communists will disappear under the rocks from whence they came rather than admit they were once again COMPLETELY WRONG…. Only to resurface the next time they think they can dupe the press and the public into fighting for their cause by putting a palatable name on their communist desires.
That's easy. Clinton intervenes into a two-sided civil war in Kosovo and Mike Farrell supported it. Bush wishes to take out one of the most evil rulers of our time and Mike Farrell opposes it. Therefore, Despotism became peace on January 20th, 2001 at noon.
Great analysis! You nailed it!
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