Appeasing Hitler and Saddam: A witness remembers.

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Thursday, February 20, 2003 | By Alistair Cooke

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, February 20, 2003

Quote of the Day by areafiftyone

[Maynerd]

good post

[goldstategop]

Alastair Cooke.... ahhh that brings back memories of his excellent BBC series on America made back in the 1970s and his subsequent role as host for PBS' Masterpiece Theater. Among Brits, he has a fondness and appreciation for America that's a rarity in Europe. I always thought Cooke was a class act and that rare gentleman but this article shows what an Americaphile he is considering how trendy America-bashing today is in the U.K and Europe. All in all his comments on the 1930s illustrate just how history seems to repeat itself except one hopes that this time in this blessed country we've taken its lessons to heart.

[Swordmaker]

Those who refuse to learn from History are condemned to relive it.

[goldstategop]

Too bad George Santayana's famous aphorism is lost on today's post-modern Left.

[DB]

BTTT

[Tamzee]

wonderful...

[IrishRainy]

EXCELLENT article! Thanks for posting it!

[timestax]

bump to the top

[Jmouse007]

Because the leaders of the "free world" chose to ignore the problem and hope it would "go away" 80 MILLION people died. That does not take into account how many millions were maimed or wounded for life. Nor does it take into account how many children were orphaned due to the death of their parents.

Today we are at the crossroads of history. America and it's coalition of the willing must act and act soon. If not, our children's children will live in a world where anthrax, bio and chemical attacks on America and freedom loving countries around the world (if any are left) will be the norm. Millions upon millions will die and they will have this generation to blame.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Eva]

I am reading Roosevelt's War and I have been thinking the same thing, the slogans are the same, the reasons are the same and the anti-semitism is the same.

By the way... How many Frenchmen does it take to save Paris? answer... No one knows, they've never tried it.

[First_Salute]

Churchill "started a highly unpopular campaign for rearmament"

Bush must, too.

[First_Salute]

There's a book entitled, Hostage to Fortune. If you can find it, you'd learn a bit of history about that day in 1936 when Hitler marched into the Rhineland.

[Stultis]

This picture cries out for a bit of photoshopping.

[patriciaruth]

Bump.

[petuniasevan]

Alistair Cooke (born 20 NOV 1908) remembers well the lessons of that history.

Bookmarked.

[fella]

Great catch.

[happygrl]

BUMP!

[MHGinTN]

Thanks for posting this, John. I'm 'drag and pasting' it to relatives this very night!