Posted on 01/11/2008 10:05:46 AM PST by starlifter
I think this came from his heart rather than his intellect, but you're right. He should have said the US should have entered the war in 1939
They have always shied away from a state. Because they have always gotten their strength from just complaining.
Force them into a state. They can't gripe they are oppressed and state-less anymore. Then they have to show some responsibility like all other nations of the world.
And it will be evident just how inept they are.
If America invaded Russia during the Russian Revolution, we might have saved 60 million lives from Commie genocide but I guess they are not so important.
Heck, the French could have nipped it in 1936 if they had shown a little backbone and backed up the Versailles treaty. To quote Hitler himself:
"The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance."
Bush has been a complete embarrassment on this trip, but lately I've come to expect that of him.
Of course...it has everything to do with the Soviets evil ambition to dominate eastern Europe. But the fact that the Allies refused requests for help from very high level anti-Nazis within the German Army...requests that began even before the German invasion of Czechoslovakia...helped the Soviets ultimately realize their goal.
The Soviets invaded Poland with the Nazis...before Barbarossa, the Soviets intended to push Hitler and the Nazis into a world war and split the spoils of Nazi conquests.
In the end, the Soviets, ironically, found the FDR Administration at Tehran and Yalta more than willing to cede to the Communists half of a dismembered Germany, Poland and a large swath of eastern Europe.
But we shouldn't be surprised...we now know that the FDR Administration was filled with Soviet spies...including several very high level officials like Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Nathan Silvermaster, etc.
We did send in troops. About 12,000 split between Vladivostok and Arkhangelsk.
Ping.
This thread contains some history tidbits.
"Peace in Our Time!"
The "Peace" movements of the 1930's ending up costing Europe 40 million dead.
Today's "Peace" movements want to abandon 70% of the World's known oil reserves to the military control of Islamist fanatics in Iran actively seeking nuclear weapons, ICBM's and martyrdom.
How many millions of lives will that "Peace" cost in the future?
Bush needs to just shut up. I think it’s unfair to second-guess Roosevelt with the advantage of 65 years hindsight. FDR knew the best way to stop the holocaust was to win the war, as soon as possible. Bombing concentration camps would have caused little slowdown in the killings taking place. The Nazis would have just moved down the road and found another place.
Not exactly a serious force considering that Trotsky and his war commissars were rasing scores of divisions.
The cruising speed of a fully-loaded B17 was far less than 300 mph, but I take your point.
You can't say it any better than that.
My mom and I were talking about this yesterday. You are correct. But think how the liberals view pre-emption. They see it as cold blooded assassination! We were imagining a 1992 election without Perot, and Bush I actually winning. He sees the threat of bin Laden and has him killed in that "hunting expedition" with the Saudi prince.
From then on, when the libs hear of this attack, they claim he, the big CIA man, went out and had our allies (binnie and the Saudi) killed for no reason, against the will of America, bla bla bla. No one would ever have know what bin Laden would have been capable of (9/11) because it would not have occurred.
Who knows what the winning against terror in Iraq will have prevented? With G-d's help, we never HAVE to know.
There were raids where the 8th AF lost 20 - 25% (Schweinfurt) of their attacking force. Many of the battle damaged aircraft that DID make it home were total write-offs. As to strategic targeting: the Bomber Command shifted from Sub Pens, to Oil, to Rail Transportation, to Ball Bearings, to Fighters. Almost nothing worked as expected as the targets were either difficult to strike, too heavily defended, or easily repaired.
Hmm, I’m not sure that much would’ve been accomplished by bombing Auschwitz; i.e., the killing would’ve continued unabated. The most important thing was bringing down that regime and we accomplished that (to the sound of crickets from the hate-America crowd). However, it might’ve been a nice symbolic gesture.
Good Grief...I would NOT believe this memeorial guy to repeat exactly what Bush said.
Then he should help them bomb Axis power Iran asap and prevent holocaust 2.
But the West Bank and Gaza are occupied territories. Who’s occupying them? The Islamofascist terrorists of Palestine of course, which is why we call them the Palestinian-occupied terrorist territories.
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