"I ran with Hitler!"
If the stakes for world peace weren't so high I'd genuinely love to throw the whole thing to the EU with a "Negotiate this, guys, and call us when Tehran can hit New York." With sad regards to my friends in Europe, yes, that's what decades of incessant anti-Americanism have brought, and yes, a lot of Americans and not all of them conservatives, really do feel that way.
By then Iran will also be able to hit Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the Ukraine. I mention those countries in particular because they've all lost people supporting us in Iraq. So, for that matter, has Spain, its pullout and its current government of backstabbing Socialist twits despite. And others who have sent people include the Czech Republic, Armenia, Macedonia, Estonia, and Norway. So before we go through the "Europeans hate us" mantra we'd better remember that it's only the ones with the biggest mouths.
In the meantime, too, we would be dealing with the blows and buffets of the Iran oil weapon - their Oil Exchange - which is coming on line in July.
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Very well laid out case IMO.
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
If you're trying to make a point with an extended comparison to WWII, it helps your credibility if the historical narrative is not riddled with errors.
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I agree with the sentiment of the article. One glaring error was that Ireland remained neutral in World War II. De Valera, of course like the rest of the IRA, had no use for the British and believed their defeat would gain the Irish the North.
He may be a Writer and Lawyer but he's a pretty lousy WW2 historian.
I don't see much of an analogy.
Another glaring error that comes to mind is the assertion that none of America's allies could produce enough matériel for themselves. Canada bought arms from the USA but we exported far more than we imported, and Canada was Britain's lifeline in 1940-41.
Germany declared war on us first. Do not even have to read any more of this article if the author gets that fact wrong.
"I ran with Hitler!"
Pretty good article for family and friends who don't get it.
Troop supporters FYI ping.
This guy better pick up a history book, Ireland was a neutral contry throughout WW II.
World War II began in 1928
No, it began on September 1939 with the invasion of Poland. Most of the figures and dates in this thing are wrong.
Iran is now completely encircled.
The Persian people need to act.
I am coping this out and carring it with me, whenever some idiot says something...I will give it to them!!!!!!
Germany could not have successfully invaded Britain. They had no means to do it. They didn't have a Navy, despite Britain's loss of ships to stop them. They did not have sufficient landing craft. Hitler was not a Navy man. He was an Army man. And in the end, he did not invade Britain because he simply did not have the resources to pull it off. Also, Churchill said, in his memoirs, that Britain would have used gas to stop an amphibious attack by Germany. It would have worked. So, we can rewrite the history books, but things happened as they were planned to happen. The Allies won,and Germany lost..primarily because it lacked balanced military might.
Thanks for the article. I took it to be very interesting and the comparisons with WWII was especially good. I am not a Historian, but still enjoyed the article, even though he may have been off on some of the facts. If, in fact he was.
Common sense.
Fantastic article. President Bush should explain the situation this way.
For the same reason that Alec Baldwin still lives in the States after having promised to move out of the country if Bush won.