What do you mean, WE, paleface?
We have no allies.
“unless Obama can galvanize Western allies to meet the mounting danger.”
King obuma is the danger.
Spain, on the other hand, was both willing and able to challenge totalitarianism, crushing the Communists and anarchists who had been Sovietizing the country and murdering Catholics by firing squad for several years.
Franco was such a brilliant tactician that he beat the Soviets and their surrogates, helped by air support from the Nazis. But he stiffed Hitler when Der Fooey asked to use Spain as a base of intelligence operations. And then he helped Jews escape the Nazis.
Does Prof. Hanson really believe that the outcome of the Spanish Civil War was a victory for totalitarianism? It was a victory against it.
Well Victor Davis Hansen forgot to mention that 2010 will be a memorable year in that we could see a POLITICAL TSUMMI in the making with a large number of DEMS and RINOS being VOTED OUT. In other words, VOTE THE BUMS OUT!
Not to worry.
Americans will continue to vote for brilliant, intellectual, enlightened, really smart, Liberal Democrats.
“Independent” voters will still be Liberal Democrats in disguise and will still vote for Liberal Democrats.
“Independent” voters will continue to think of themselves as brilliant while they think of conservatives as dumb, ignorant, knuckle-dragging, bible-thumping dolts.
Liberal Democrats will continue to give full citizenship rights to Islamic radicals while seeking to curtail the rights of bible-thumping, gun-loving, supporters of the second amendment.
Republicans will not do as well as they think in the upcoming mid-term elections in 2010.
IMHO
The truth is that most independents are not Democrats as they are much more conservative. Just my 2 cents.
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