VISUALIZE WORLD APPEASMENT
"Peace in our lifetime"
"HAW"? The only appropriate response seems to be, "HAW HAW HAW!"
How Appropriate, Wot?
I suppose that's okay if they spend their own money in the furthence of this cause. Otherwise they should be canned in mass.
Including studying history, obviously.
IF ANYONE KNOWS WHY WAR IS NECESSARY, IT IS AN HISTORIAN.
Two generations of touchy-feely types masquerading as serious researchers and compilers had me fooled.
Is there any way to tell these fools we don't care what they think?
Report the facts in a competent way and we can think for ourselves.
Stop trying to be part of history. And certainly please avoid giving us your delusions of it.
By the way, future events and contemporary civil governance is not history, losers.
The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
What the democrats want you to forget
Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)
Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)
Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikesIraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam
Prof. Larry Schweikart, History Department, University of Dayon
VISUALIZE WORLD APPEASMENT
"Peace in our lifetime"
The war had already begun in both Europe and Asia. The argument of America First was for the US to stay out of it. Their public argument was, essentially, "What has Hitler done to us?" (to paraphrase that renowned historian, Susan Sarandon.)
Historians who ignore history are as dangerous as surgeons who have a shaky knife, or lawyers who are drunk in court. I remind these alleged historians of a comment of one of their own, the late, great Georges Santayana, "Those who ignore their history are condemned to repeat it."
The former anti-war effort which was a minority but quite vocal until December, 1941, was a pistache of passivists, dupes, German-Americans, and Nazi supporters who were hiding behind the banner of passivism. It was strikingly similar to the current anti-war effort in the combination of strange bedfellows.
Hey, come to think of it, isn't it the proper business of historians to comb through history looking for examples that are close to a present circumstance to shed light on it and better understand it? Historians, heal thyselves.
Congressman Billybob
Click for latest column for UPI, "Necessary Lies -- Iraq & N. Korea" (Now up on UPI wire, and FR.)
As the politician formerly known as Al Gore has said, my book, "to Restore Trust in America"
Those who say violence never solves anything don't know anything about history. The massive violence of all-out war has ended a hell of a lot of trouble throughout history. You can't talk a murdering tyrant out of his mad ambition. The quicker you kill the bastard, the more lives you save.
I think Tennessee's Sgt. Alvin York, a notable soldier of World War I and a devout Christian who hated violence, said it correctly. "I killed to prevent a greater amount of death."
War is profoundly regrettable and absolutely necessary from time to time. This is such a time.
Washington Post 3/6/99 Nat Hentoff "…Not widely known, however, is that more than 240 American historians have come forth with a call for impeachment -- on different grounds. The new petition declares: "Impeach Bill Clinton for the Right Reasons: Not for Lewinsky, but Rather for the Illegal Bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan." This proposed indictment was first circulated during the Jan. 7-10 meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington…. The petition cites a violation of the War Powers Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8). Although Congress "shall have Power to . . . declare War," Clinton only marginally consulted a few of its leaders and did not go through the required stages of meaningful consultation as mandated by the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Also violated, according to these historians, was Executive Order 12.333, Sec. 2-305, which prohibits assassination or conspiracy to assassinate human foreign targets…."
Yep, that's your typical peacenik right there.