No, what these leaders fear is the consequence of recognizing this truth. If it is true, then we are in the midst of World War III, then we have exactly two choices. Win it now, when the costs in blood and money are still relatively small (compared to most US wars). Or, we will wait until our losses are in the millions of lives, and in the hundreds of billions of dollars, until we are forced to accept that truth, and fight and win that War at much greater cost.
Congressman Billybob
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Battle (of Vienna 1683)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
At 4 in the morning, on September 12, the Austrian army on the left, and the German forces in the center moved forward, in an attack (which was aimed at preventing another long siege) against the Turks. Mustafa Pasha launched a counter-attack, with most of his force. Then the Polish infantry launched a massive assault upon the right flank. After 12 hours of fighting, Sobieski's Polish force held the high ground on the right.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, four cavalry groups, one of them Austrian-German, and the other three composed of Polish hussars, totaling 20,000 men in all and led by the Polish king, charged down the hills. In the confusion, they made straight for the Ottoman camps, while the Vienna garrison sallied out of its defenses, and joined in the assault. In less than three hours, the Polish forces won the battle, as the Turkish army beat a hasty retreat to the south and east.
The Turks lost about 15,000 men in the fighting, compared to approximately 4,000 for the Habsburg-Polish forces.
(The battle marked the turning point in the 300-year struggle between the forces of the Central European kingdoms, and the Ottoman Empire.)