Did you know that in 1938, as opposition leader in England, Winston Churchill urged the British and French to attack Hitler, and remove him from power. One of the arguments used against Churchill was it would cost at least 2,000 British lives. Does that sound familiar? They felt that Hitler was just a dumb Austrian Corporal and he could be handled with diplomacy. They felt it would take decades for Germany to acquire the military power to take on England and France. It took about 3 years.
The French and English governments as well as the United States media did not think Hitler was a real threat. In 1938 Hitler made a speech in which he said he intended to conquer all of Europe and kill all the Jews. CBS reported what Hitler said, and then added the remark that Hitler was obviously playing to his base... The real question CBS asked, was "What did Hitler really intend to do?" The answer was conquer Europe and Kill all the Jews... but that logic escaped the US media.
The French and English Governments firmly believed that using force to prevent WWII was not something France and Germany would moraly do. I wonder if any of the 50 million people who died in WWII would disagree.
It is interesting to note that 8 years later after the loss of life in North Africa, Sicily,and Italy the D Day invasion of Normandy cost 50,000 lives in just hours. By the Sumner of 1944, 2000 lives to remover Hitler did not look costly at all.
It is worth noting that over 2000 troops were lost in Germany in the two years after Germany surrendered.
I wonder what today's media would think about us occupying Japan for five years after Japan surrendered? American General Douglas MacArthur wrote the Japanese constitution and was in effect the Japanese ruler from the fall of 1945 until the early 1950s. It was 5 long years before we pulled our troops out of Japan and allowed the Japanese self Government.
Most people don't understand why it took years to get Germany and Japan in a position to govern themselves. The reason is the old regime had to be disbanded. Hitlers Army and police could not be left in control. The Japanese ruling class had to be removed from power and new leaders and staff trained. It takes years to train new police and military. We had to train new leaders. We had to train local people to train new German police. The same was true in Japan. If it takes 4 years of college to train an elementary school teacher, how long does it take to train people to run a country. We can not leave the old regime in charge... The victory would have been worthless. It takes a long time to train leaders and then train staff.
The Democrats know this. They just believe the average American is too stupid to know the truth.
The Democrats always make the same mistake. They think the process can be more quickly completed with more money and people. That is akin to arguing that if one woman can produce a baby in nine months then nine woman can produce a baby in one month.
The Democrats depend on us being as ignorant of the problems and solutions as they thing we are.
If you have ever listened to Hannity's (Blabbity to some of us) "Man on the Street" interview and also note that, what, some 45 MILLION Americans voted for Kerry, you might be able to believe it too.
In an age of self and immediate gratification, most don't have the patience to see things through. They have a hard time seeing the long goal to defeat terrorists won't happen over night, or within the next few years.
What they also fail to realize that if we pull out of Iraq they must think we will eventually be safe because we don't pose a threat to the Islamic Facists.
Tell that to the 3000 dead on 9/11. Who the heck were we intimidating?
On a lighter note, took my son to see War of the Worlds. Wow... Wow!