Lost the Peace (my title - Check the date at the end)

The Federalist ^ | 1946 | Unknown

[aardvark1]

"The troops returning home are worried. 'We've lost the peace,' men tell you. 'We can't make it stick.' ... Friend and foe alike, look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly they are disappointed in you as an American. ... Never has American prestige in Europe been lower.... Instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction we came in full of evasions and apologies.... A great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease. The taste of victory had gone sour in the mouth of every thoughtful American I met." --Life Magazine, January 7, 1946

[netmilsmom]

This is beautiful!

[4mycountry]

Cool -- yet creepy!

[4mycountry]

Ok, I shot you, now what? **tag**

[sarasota]

This is one for my Iraqi Freedom file. Thanks.

[mgist]

Great catch, I love this place

[MissAmericanPie]

Bitter disappointment in American victories has always been the reaction of our covetous enemy/allies in that dung heap called Europe.

[dangus]

Was the article referring to the fact that we negotiated away Eastern Europe and were allowing China to fall? That we "lost the peace" after WWII is actually a gripe I've heard from conservatives, which sounds strange only a decade after the end of the cold war.

[netmilsmom]

Why is this blood gushing out of my arm?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

It's a great point but we have not had a V-E or V-J day in this world war. Battles have been won in Iraq and elsewhere but the war rages and a Vietnam-style quagmire is going to kill us.

That quagmire is the political/media quagmire that helped lose the war in Vietnam after U.S. and allied forces won all the battles. The U.S. administration under tremendous pressures forced the South to hold democratic elections even as the battles raged. Those pressures today are everywhere. 2004 presidential elections, you know. Today political considerations are forcing the transition to Iraqi control too early -- just got to do a little mopping up along side the new Iraqi government? Is that what is happening?

A googled page reads "Build a movement against the occupation of Iraq," by the Socialist Youth & Youth Against War.

While leftists pukes rant about a Vietnam "quagmire" in Iraq and say Iraqi cities are jungles and swamps these socialists folks know the real score. To wit, "The parallels with Vietnam, where the anti-war movement in the US played a key role in forcing the US to pull out, are clear. But there are important differences -- not least that anti-war mood in the US and in other countries is growing at a far earlier stage than it did in Vietnam. And, after the experience of Vietnam, workers and ordinary people in the US will be far less tolerant of their sons and daughters being returned in body bags."

The point of the W.W.II post is correct though premature. IMO it tends to get us bogged down in complacency. IMO it leads to public frustrations with our military as the world war continues while some think it's over.

[Weimdog]

Posted a month ago, try search...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003058/posts

[4mycountry]

You said, "Just shoot me now!". And who am I to deny you of your request?

:)

[netmilsmom]

You're so darling! Come visit me! Or better yet, I'd rather go to TX. MI sucks.

[4mycountry]

Michigan?! Wow, you're up there! You must be freezing to death! *brrrr*

[netmilsmom]

I hate cold, I hate snow, I hate Michigan.

[AppyPappy]

Your link doesn't work

[4mycountry]

I'm sorry. :( You'd luv TX.

I kinda like the cold, though; I can hunker down under the covers in bed. Mmmmmm!

[AgThorn]

Bagdad Bob says there are no parallels here, nothing to see, don't read too much into this ... nothing here, move along!