paragraph breaks are our friends, too.
He never demonstrated that truth more than during the 1930s, his years “In the Wilderness” when he was warning the British people (and this is not an exact quote): “Look, you stupid heads, don’t you see what Adolph Hitler is up to? Haven’t you read his book? Don’t you know that he wants to conquer the world? Haven’t you figured out that he wants to murder all the Jews and snuff out all freedom? What’s wrong with you fools?”
Churchill was mocked and condescended to by the press and the political elites, almost until the moment that military disaster in France gave him the leadership of the nation against Hitler and his thugs. He held out against the dark night of fascism until first Russia, then America, joined the struggle.
Because of Churchill we have a West. We are now battling a different tyrant and his thugs, and the mockers and elites often refuse to admit that there is a threat. Things are not exactly the same, although there are similarities.
But once again the fate of the West is in the balance. Those warning today are not as few and alone as Churchill was, but they probably feel as isolated. They are warning (and this is not an exact quote): “You dummies! Don’t you understand that the agenda of the radical Islamofascists is to take over every secular society on earth? Haven’t you read Osama’s words? Haven’t you heard about people they have murdered because they dared to criticize Islam? Don’t you understand that there will be no freedom if these people win?
And please don’t give me your nonsense about how ‘fundamentalist Christians’ are just as much of a threat. Christian societies tolerate, even encourage the practice of Islam. Islamic societies do not tolerate the open practice of any other religion? Don’t you know that they hate freedom of speech, equality of women and democracy?” But how many are still listening?
Imagine, if you will, shortly after Pearl Harbor, a pundit, politician, philosopher or maybe even an ex-president (take your pick), being interviewed and you hear something like this: “We have no real quarrel with the Japanese people. Just with certain militaristic elements of that island nation. We partially have ourselves to blame because we have not been more sensitive to their genuine aspirations.” Or regarding the Germans: “You can’t judge a society by the few radical racists. If we didn’t keep trying to oppress the Germans, we wouldn’t have to fight them all over the world. We should withdraw our military from all of its foreign adventures and the Germans would stop fighting us.” Sound familiar?
Wouldn't it be nice if we could have Churchill as our president now? His rhetoric would tear the Democrats a new one.
Neville Chamberlain resigned on May 10, 1940, and Winston Churchill replaced him as Prime Minister. That was the same day that the Germans invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The evacuation from Dunkirk took place from May 28 to June 4. Paris didn't fall until June 13, and the capitulation was signed on June 22.
Yes, it sounds all too familiar, and I think it's because most Americans have no idea what the word 'fascist' means, and they are uninformed or misinformed as to the nature of Islam. Therefore it is easy for them to believe that if we would only stop fighting them they will leave us alone. The truth, of course, is that they will leave us and all non-Muslims alone only when their theocratic dictators, like Hitler, are destroyed.
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