Where's humblegunner when you need him?
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 ...
Well said, Hetty.
Unfortunately, there seem to be Neanderthals who are given free reign 'round these parts.
Why? Who knows.
Shame on you all.
Got Churchill?
Shame on you all.
You’re joking.
"Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name? What an arrogant piece of crap he must be."
humblegunner called VDH a "arrogant piece of crap".
Do you agree with that characterization of him (VDH),Rodamala?
No, he did not make a valid point. It was a point in ignorance of common newpaper editorial page style coupled with pointed disregard of a highly thought of conservative author.
BTW, here’s how VDH’s article is titled on his home publication website National Review
War Clouds on the Horizon?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393896/war-clouds-horizon-victor-davis-hanson
“Pooty-Poot has been getting his ass handed to him with the cratering crude and sanctions over his invasion and occupation of Ukrainian territory; he can’t pull the plug on his aggression, but he can’t afford it either”
That’s a common cause of war: lacking sufficient funds, kill creditors and confiscate wealth on a large scale. Usually doesn’t work out very well for most involved, but no other path seems viable.
Where's humblegunner when you need him?
“Somebody needs to learn you a lesson boy.”
Pappy taught me the goal of education is to cure ignorance with stupidity is something short of hopeless. “Stupid” was very much a forbidden word to use in characterizing someone. Also told me the best one can do in response to some people is IGNORE THEM.
All that said, must say it’s amusing to agitate them...let’m show their a**! And VDH is always a worthwhile read.
good point: WWII killed the Great Depression
>The western democratic nations don’t have leadership with any guts today.<
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How can one have leadership today when one is expected to have a politically correct attitude?
Says who?
Gawd A’mighty, Humble. Get off it already.
“Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
But he who hates correction is stupid.” Proverbs 12:1
NKJV
The socialist.
They fall for it every time.
I won’t make that mistake, again! Thanks :)
I am not a socialist. Nor do I advocate war to solve economic problems....Just that it has been observed that WWII kicked US industry in the pants.
But.
Europe might have a different take on the situation.
The oldest motivator for war- besides women (kidding! kidding!) is greed. "I don't have what he has. I want what he has. He won't give me what he has. I'm going to take what he has for my own and crush his ability to take it back."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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