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Fantastic article. Too bad we couldn't force the liberal (communist) party to read and sign their name to the bottom of the article. Brain dead, well no hope.
Lancer, this is a FANTASTIC. Thank you, so much, for posting this. It is so 'on the money' and, like Mr. Kraft, I don't understand why the libs don't get it.
I plan to share this with as many people as I can.....and, sharing with students is an excellent idea.
In the main, most of your points are correct. I have to dispute the above statement that you made, though, since it closely parallels our situation today.
The Soviet Union found itself in it's catastrophic situation of 1940 through it's own actions. In the late 1920's, the Soviets made a deal with the devil and agreed to help Germany thwart the League of Nations inspectors looking for banned weapons of war, just exactly like they did in Iraq in the 1990's.
In a small Russian town named Lipetsk, far removed into the interior of the Soviet Union, Germany was provided assistance, airfields and personnel to design, test and perfect the weapons later used in WW2. The agreement was that the Soviets would share in all technology developed, since Stalin had killed all of his best engineers, and found himself in a pickle. He agreed to help the Germans overrun and destroy Western nations, actually delighting that the Germans would make his job of Communist conquest easier.
Stalin's mistake was figuring that in the knife fight that followed, the Soviets could quadruple-cross the Germans- after they had taken care of the Brits, French and the other capitalists. He overestimated the time he would have to turn on the Germans.
Meanwhile, the world marveled at the modern new German fighters and bombers which just popped into existence at precisely the time to be combat tested in the 1935 Spanish Civil War.
The Germans had a dozen years to develop in secret the very weapons forbidden them by the Armistice. And the League of Nations inspectors, American and British, were made to look like fools, for as hard as they looked they could find no sign of the new weapons in the late 1920's.
Why? Because the weapons were where the inspectors couldn't look- in the minds of the designers, in the easily hidden notebooks of data from Lipetsk.
After the inspectors left in '28, the Germans smiled and knew that they had won... with the help of the despicable Soviets. Manufacturing the first high-performance fighter took years. Manufacturing the second one, and each one thereafter, took only days.
Americans have to understand that the effort and money necessary to research and develop WMD is extensive. Once it is perfected, however, and all the temperatures, incubation times, process procedures, etc. are optimized and recorded in a little notebook... that little notebook, shared by FAX machine with all the enemies of man, will enable even splinter terrorist groups to leapfrog 20 years and a billion dollars worth of research.
Saved our asses? How about reaped what they sowed. We knew even in 1940 what the Soviets had done. It's just that no one seemed to be able to convince FDR that Uncle Joe wasn't his good buddy. Naivete dies hard, and takes many good G.I.'s with it.
We know what the Soviets have again sown, thinking that they could use surrogates to hurt the capitalist world. Only this time, we don't know how far those seeds were spread, and cannot take the chance.
What tees me off is how the left throws around words like "debacle" and "quagmire" to describe a war that has, in reality, been incredibly successful. We’re 2-3 years ahead of schedule on reconstruction and it’s all been done with less cost and fewer casualties than any analyst predicted. Donald Rumsfeld deserves a lot of credit, though the leftwing media will never give it to him. Even FOX takes potshots at him. I guess we'll have to wait for the history books to get the real story of how Iraq was one of the best planned and executed conflicts in military history.