Kerry Hasn’t Read a History Book

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 25 September 2004 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Concerning US allies in WW II, at the end of the war many of the former allies had been taken over by the Nazis. Polish pilots played a key role in the Battle of Britain that saved Britain. Free French troops played a role in victories in North Africa. But neither France nor Poland were "allies" toward the end of the war.

Billybob

[MikefromOhio]

ok....well it was in that area....

thanks....

[swilhelm73]

We only had seven allies with us at the end of World War II.

Obviously there were Filipino troops at with us when Japan invaded...but after they were occupied were their units reformed?

[hershey]

The RAT party must be schizoid at this point. Clintonistas conniving at a not too bad showing/but a loss nonetheless by Kerry. They're keeping the seat warm for Hill, and evidently Kerry's the only one still in the dark. Notice Hill and Bill are nowhere to be seen on the stump for Kerry, or in tv ads, even voice-overs. That is not coincidental. The best he can dredge up is Hanoi Jane.

GW will wipe the floor with Kerry in the debates, but the press and pundits will instead ridicule and taunt him. Why bother with debates when they exist merely promote your opponent, a 'small graceless man', as Steyn points out with unerring accuracy. Kerry would happily see this country go down the drain, in fact, he probably lies awake nights praying for another 9/11, something, anything he can hang his hat on. I can't bear to listen to Kerry's speeches, so thanks for posting the article and your comments. Perilous times, indeed. God bless us all.

[Congressman Billybob]

Filipino guerillas were essential allies as the Americans sought to retake the Phillipines. But they were not representing that "nation" of course.

Billybob

[kayak]

One of Kerry's quotes:

"We will win when we work with our allies, to enable children in poor countries to get a quality basic education. More than 50 percent of the population in the Arab and Muslim world is under the age of 25. The future is a race between schools that spark learning and schools that teach hate. We have to preempt the haters. We have to win the war of ideas."

Well, Johnny, ol' boy, that's exactly what we're trying to do in this election ... preempt those who hate America and the values that have stood for over 200 years. That's why we're working to defeat you.

[GWfan]

Very good. Please ping me to anything you write.

[gitmo]

Bravo!

[CGVet58]

C-man, an excellent piece. Copied, quoted & emailed to my job address for dissemination amongst the leftists.

And for the record, thanks for putting it in one place; I've tried listening to the poodle but confess my stomach isn't as strong as it once was.

CGVet58

[Rose in RoseBear]

Pingpingping!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Commonwealth
France
China
Brazil
USSR
Netherlands
Australia

[JesseHousman]

Aha!

Another Republican Party lie.

This great warrior has read, single handed, "The Valley Of The Dolls."

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Sorry, hadn't read all posts. Australia would have been part of the commonwealth in the '40's. I would have to agree that the Phillipines must have been #7 thanks in large part to McAurthur.

[Phsstpok]

well, that's a keeper.

Nicely framed and argued.

[teeman8r]

hey, my history teacher use to say that line about repeating history all the time... but his name wasn't georges santayana... it was fred white...

teeman

well said congressman

[xkaydet65]

Torquenada was the face of Spanish Catholicism. He was not the face of Thomas More or Erasmus. The Holy Inquisition and The Spanish Inquisition are not the same institutions, and had somewhat different purposes. English political and religious leaders used the existence of the Spanish Inquisition to arouse nationalistic and religious fervor in the face of Spanish Imperialism. Neither Institution is defensible in the 21st Century world, but the Spanish Inquisition, being the result not only of zealous Catholicism, but of a culture formed by the 700 year Reconquista was truly a thing by itself.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with you about the leaders of Catholicism in the late Middle Ages. However, in my one phrase reference I was trying to make a single metaphorical point, nothing more.

Billybob

[xkaydet65]

Just making my own small point , and BTW it's an honor to have a true Freeper all star respond. No Kidding.

Got a class to teach now, but I wil give your entire post a thorough rereading this PM. Kerryana delenda est.

[wideawake]

During the Spanish Inquisition, Torquemada WAS the face of Catholicism. Hasn’t Kerry ever read a history book on religious tortures and murders during the Middle Ages? That’s the right place to go to understand Islam and Wahabism today.

Sorry, Billybob. Even as the Spanish throne was conducting the Inquisition, Catholic priests in the New World were standing up against slave trading and the brutalization of Indians while Polish, Italian and German Catholics were fighting against the Turk to keep Europe free from dhimmitude.

Inquisition is not a structural, defining element of Catholicism.

However, jihad is such a structural element of Islam.

Torture and murder are not only the way to understand Islam and Wahabbism today - the exact same behavior as today was already present in Islam back in the days of the Spanish Inquisition - in fact the inquisitors were only reenacting the same behavior that their parents had endured in throwing off the Muslim yoke from Spain a generation before.

[MBohman]

Does Kerry realize that if he somehow DOES get elected he's going to need to stop dumping on our allies? We won't be able to defend ourselves with France and Germany as our only allies...