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The parallels between today and the 1930's are chilling. The Democratic party is no different than the appeasers in Neville Chamberlain's Labour Party and the voice of pacifism in the likes of Cindy Sheehan is just as shrill as in the 1930's. The American isolationists who urged us to stay out of Europe's war, today are embodied in the Sen Murtha's who call again for retreat to fortress America. W can only hope that a leader like Winston Churchill will emerge to galvanize world opinion to oppose this global fascism.

Pardon me for being blunt - screw waiting for a Churchill. My personal take is that we need to deserve victory. That starts with you and me making America strong enough for the task ahead. We need to reject the culture that the socialists have tried to create, and restore the values which we were founded on. I have a bunch more to say about this, but I think I'll save it for my book. ;>)

The parallels between today and the 1930's are chilling. The Democratic party is no different than the appeasers in Neville Chamberlain's Labour Party and the voice of pacifism in the likes of Cindy Sheehan is just as shrill as in the 1930's. The American isolationists who urged us to stay out of Europe's war, today are embodied in the Sen Murtha's who call again for retreat to fortress America. W can only hope that a leader like Winston Churchill will emerge to galvanize world opinion to oppose this global fascism.

I agree on the eery parallels. Frankly, it is frightening me.

I just finished reading "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives", a historiography of the careers of Hitler and Stalin, year by year. Highly recommended, though it could do with a tougher editor in places. One of the main themes is that everybody underestimated these characters or chose to ignore them. Hitler was once a sideshow joke, but within 14 years he had conquered most of Europe and brought destruction onto Germany.

The same attitude of "looking away" exists today, eg with that guy who heckled our Home Secretary the other day. We cannot affored to ignore these people.

75 million Europeans lost their lives between 1910 and 1953 in the various wars and famines. That is why I am frightened. The next war will be worse, there are a lot more people on the planet, especially south of the Mediterranean.