Posted on 03/15/2012 10:51:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
You are so right on ! My wife and I are in tears. You are great with words. I have my doubts about our fellow Americans. They just don’t see what we see. ............Churchill among us now.
That may be true but it is also due to the fact that the sellout was a cynical and knowing betrayal of eastern european democracies, leading to the murder of millions. Chamberlain died a broken man soon after, and for good reason. He knew what he had done.
It is also true that Churchill was right for years before, ignored and ridiculed for it. If the West had listened to him in 1936, when the German Army was a ragtag bunch straggling unhindered and unopposed into the Rhineland, no better than the British Army and far weaker than the French, there would have been no WWII, at least in the European theatre.
We at least have the oppportunity of not ignoring Gingrich untill it is too late and the cost too high. Whether we will seize the day is looking doubtful.
Good point, and I won’t be disagreeing with you.
The problem is hindsight is 20:20 vision, foresight is looking through mud with one eye closed and the other squinting. He had to make time for us to build and equip our forces. A hard choice. One I would hate to have to call.
Churchill saw what was needed, both in ‘36 and in ‘45, and both times no one believed him. The failure of the allies to listen to Churchill in ‘45 killed far more than Chamberlain did.
I pray every single day that America will not ignore Gingrich. The guy with an actual plan, written out for all to see, to get out of the quagmire. It just is starting to look less likely to actually happen.
Without vision people will parish...
or perish...
i wonder if he meant that without vision more people would go to church...
it’s hard to say what he meant...
i have no visi______________aaaaargh...
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