Posted on 12/07/2014 4:34:41 PM PST by daisy12
The world is changing and becoming even more dangerous — in a way we’ve seen before.
In the decade before World War I, the near-100-year European peace that had followed the fall of Napoleon was taken for granted. Yet it abruptly imploded in 1914. Prior little wars in the Balkans had seemed to predict a much larger one on the horizon — and were ignored.
The exhausted Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were spent forces unable to control nationalist movements in their provinces. The British Empire was fading. Imperial Germany was rising. Czarist Russia was beset with revolutionary rebellion. As power shifted, decline for some nations seemed like opportunity for others.
The same was true in 1939. The tragedy of the Versailles Treaty of 1919 was not that it had been too harsh. In fact, it was far milder than the terms Germany had imposed on a defeated Russia in 1918 or the requirements it had planned for France in 1914.
Instead, Versailles combined the worst of both worlds: harsh language without any means of enforcement.
The subsequent appeasement of Britain and France, the isolationism of the United States, and the collaboration of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany green-lighted Hitler’s aggression — and another world war.
We are entering a similarly dangerous interlude. Collapsing oil prices — a good thing for most of the world — will make troublemakers like oil-exporting Iran and Russia take even more risks.
Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/06/4273844/victor-davis-hanson-a-large-war.html?sp=/99/274/#storylink=cpy
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
Go ahead and bow down.
You know you want to.. it’s “VDH” after all...
My pleasure. Sadly, it is entertaining to see a person who doesn’t “get it” self destruct. I won’t speculate on what his problems are so, I will just look forward to another well written column by Victor Davis Hanson.
Please see posts# 53 & 58 - I am in error. Thank you.
Just so we know who does, and does not deserve the label, "arrogant piece of crap."
Like Grumpy Cat? Right?
Yup.
He must shovel a lot of bucks to JRob since he posts a lot of stupid s*** here and gets away with it.
Please point it out if you see it.
Me.. I hate some fawning.
And "authors" who title stuff with their own name are asking for fawning.
Worship those false gods, batboy. Bend a knee at the exalted name.
Not me.
You can probably say 3 real soon.
He’s actually humble and brilliant. If you look at the hosting Newspaper’s opinion page - they list the author’s name in front of the title when the writer is well known:
http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/
So you figure Jim can be bought off?
He probably needs to make himself a sandwich. That might sweeten him up.
The name in front of the title is like "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"
Sorry. Don't like it.
If you have a problem with him, why not tell us what the problem is? Otherwise, you come across as an arrogant twit.
Is someone having a bad day?
I've read and listened to him over the years and he has always come off as a very mild and humble individual.
The Fresno Bee is obviously proud of their small home town boy doing good as a prominent military historian.
You mean like the schoolgirl who just has to remind the teacher that she forgot to give out the homework assignment? :-)
Taking his purse to the ladies' room, no doubt.
“Like Grumpy Cat? Right?”
Grumpy Cat is, at the least, fun. HG is just annoying!
What are you up to?
You have to know who VDH is and you probably know about editors using their own titles, so you must be making some other point here.
Is this about bloggers putting authors’ names in titles to get more hits or something?
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