Posted on 10/20/2002 8:09:52 PM PDT by TCSparkman
The Courage to Go It Alone?
By the Black Shadow www.Chronwatch.com
What is the definition of insanity? Trying the same approach multiple times and expecting a different result. While the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial today praises Bush for hand-wringing over North Korea, it skips out on assigning any blame to the Clinton Administration's appeasement approach for the past decade towards the rogue state. Worse, the Chron doesn't have the temerity to call itself wrong when it blasted Bush for assigning North Korea among the ''axis of evil'' last year in a State of the Union address.
The SF Chron howled over Bush's moral clarity, afraid of seeing the world in black and white, good versus evil. To liberals, everyone is equal with no moral absolutes anymore. We all live in happy tolerate ''diversity'' land and it is the U.S. who is the warmonger, not the peacemaker.
But today the egg is on the liberal Chron's face, who along with President Clinton, thought that they had achieved, as British prime minister Neville Chamberlain thought in 1938, that appeasement had achieved ''peace in our time.''
With North Korea's stunning admission, we know that not to be so. It is August 1939 again, and the dictators are beginning to march.
But even as the storm clouds of war gather, the peace at any price crowd at 401 Mission St., UC Berkeley, Harvard Square, and the Upper East Side continues to bleat for diplomacy and engagement. The Chronicle praises Bush for letting diplomacy run its course with North Korea. I agree. Let us appoint Al Gore, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter as special envoys to North Korea and have them get Kim Il Jung to sign a note promising not to develop nuclear weapons further, nor attack its neighbors to the south and east, South Korea and Japan. Perhaps they can wave it to a crowd of reporters as well and promise ''peace in our time.'' I'm sure the South Koreans will sleep better.
''You have two choices, dishonour or war. You have chosen dishonour and now you will get war.'' -Winston Churchill, 1939.
Winston Churchill, the belicose successor to Chamberlain, who was so well portrayed in HBO's fantastic movie.,''The Gathering Storm,'' warned of Nazi aggression and demanded that Britain rearm. He was dismissed as a warmonger by peaceniks in his party at the time. Nowadays he would have been called a racist colonial oppressor. But he was right when he said, ''Appeasement is the hope that the tiger will eat you last.''
Bush would be wise to follow the wisdom of Winston Churchill and ''The Few'' who led their nation to victory against the Nazis in the Summer of 1940 in the Battle of Britain. Yes, Britain ''went it alone'' against Nazi aggression, with little or no help from the United States, and defeated the Luftwaffe in three months of battle over the skies of London, saving England from certain invasion.
We face the same challenge in the aftermath of September 11. The question is: do we have the courage to ''go it alone?''
And not a year afterwards they'll be spitting on us once again.
Things are tough when you're on top, I guess.
IMO, most natives don't want to spit on us now. It's the global statist press that wants you to think that.
Everybody will admit we were right to take him out for a few weeks after we do it (just as foreigners now regularly admit to me that going after the Taliban was justified), but the inevitable cycle of history is that the English-speakers do something heroic, then the rest of the world either forgets or dismisses all of their actions as self-serving, imperialist, etc.
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