Posted on 06/07/2024 5:26:43 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to “the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences” for the United States.
McConnell marked the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France with a New York Times op-ed that lauded the “immense sacrifice” of American troops who stormed the Omaha and Utah beaches and scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to capture German gun emplacements.
And he used the occasion to remind his fellow Americans and Republicans that GOP isolationists such as then-Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) opposed the Lend-Lease Act and wanted to keep the United States neutral at the outset of the war.
While many lawmakers in both parties have traveled to Normandy, France, to celebrate the anniversary of D-Day, McConnell noted: “We forget how influential isolationists persuaded millions of Americans that the fate of allies and partners mattered little to our own security and prosperity.”
“We gloss over the powerful political forces that downplayed growing danger, resisted providing assistance to allies and partners, and tried to limit America’s ability to defend its national interests,” he wrote in the Times.
The Senate GOP leader, who plans to step down from his leadership role at the end of the year, says he will make it a priority to take on isolationists within his own party and to push for the rebuilding of the nation’s defense industrial base.
McConnell for months has warned about what he calls “the rise of a new axis of authoritarians made up of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.”
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I don’t see a Nazi (other than the Uke ones) or Bolshevik causing any trouble in Europe today. The lesson we are ignoring is what happens when you ignore Taft’s MAGA advice.
The lessons of WW-II are more relevant to Muslims and our Jew-hating educational establishment than to modern Russia.
If we had stayed out of WWI there likely wouldn’t have been WWII.
I am already voting for Trump, you don’t need to convince me China Mitch.
Gerald Ford had a lot of useless co-ops printed by the NY times. If something you write is supposed to be printed by the NY Times, throw it away.
The liberal neocons are the threat to the world. They are the axis corrupt McConnell speaks about. They’re the ones who continue to push to the East right up to Russia’s border. They knew Russia drew a red line at Ukraine but they thought they could use Ukraine to defeat Russia and overthrow Putin. The neocons were wrong again. Big surprise. They are desperate to expand the war because they know they are running out of Ukrainians to throw into battle. They want to use our son’s as cannon fodder next.
There were no US consequences in WWII until FDR blockaded the ports of TOKYO. FDR knew exactly how the Japs would respond. After intercepting messages regarding the Japs intended response, the US aircraft carriers left Pearl Harbor!!
To be expected from a Pro Russian troll - yep, we should have stayed out of WWII because it would have been easier to learn German and Japanese.
Oh you have relatives in America too? Amazing.
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Mitch wants us to die for Ukraine - a corrupt hellhole country where 'the elites' launder their money. Who wants that war? The same 'intelligence' goons and thugs who went after Trump and after us. Let them sign up their own indulged brats to be cannon fodder.
FDR blockaded Tokyo before the war?
“Oh you have relatives in America too? Amazing.”
At least I DO NOT want them fried, as you seem to want.
Some of the lessons of WWII
1. Never trust a drug-addicted vegetarian
2. Never trust socialists
3. Never trust big Pharm (e.g. Bayer)
4. Even a first-world democracy can be subverted from within
5. Negotiations and treaties rarely work for the good
6. Only total victory is permanent
7. Domestic manufacturing capacity and availability of resources are essential
8. Free communication and opposition parties are necessary
He’s writing the stupid thing for an audience where maybe 2% of them were even alive during WW2, and where maybe only 25% of them could tell you anything about WW2 anyway.
And the stakes this time are much higher. Russia, China, and N. Korea have nukes, and Biden seems to be doing his best to provoke them-well, Russia, anyway. And then there’s Iran coming up. We don’t have the military we once had. McConnell talks tough at all the wrong times, and to the wrong people.
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