I cant help but to think that all the media and leftist comparisons to Vietnam are nothing more than a thinly veiled endorsement of defeat. Yes we should learn from history, but we should learn from our mistakes so as to not repeat them and not use them as a blueprint for surrender.
On that note Im going to pass the baton to my boy Newt and see what he has to say about all this Iraq Study Group jibber jabber about asking our enemies Iran and Syria for help.
My fellow Aurorans, I present to you Speaker Newt Gingrich....
The Instincts of Neville Chamberlain
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Germany where he had signed the Munich Agreement with dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that provided for the partial dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the surrender of the Sudetenland territory of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
After hailing the agreement in front of 10 Downing Street for providing "peace in our time," Chamberlain later praised Hitler and Mussolini before the British House of Commons for their helpful part in the capitulation to Germany:
After everything that has been said about the German Chancellor [Hitler] today and in the past, I do feel that the House ought to recognise the difficulty for a man in that position to take back such emphatic declarations as he had already made amidst the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters, and to recognise that in consenting, even though it were only at the last moment, to discuss with the representatives of other Powers those things which he had declared he had already decided once for all, was a real and a substantial contribution on his part. With regard to Signor Mussolini, ... I think that Europe and the world have reason to be grateful to the head of the Italian government for his work in contributing to a peaceful solution.
Hitler and Mussolini Make Good on Their 'Emphatic Declarations'
Five weeks later, the Nazi regime unleashed the violence of Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, almost 100 Jews were murdered, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
Six months later, on March 15, 1939, the German army entered Czechoslovakia and quickly crushed all resistance. The nation of Czechoslovakia, divided internally and overcome by foreign aggression, ceased to exist. World War II had begun.
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4 comments:
Newt is still getting it done. Good post.
Newt is still an idiot.
I expected nothing less from you Zontar.
I am glad the comparisons between WWII and the Middle East are being made now...
Last year we made jokes about symposiums and conferences denying the Holocaust as a actual event in history. Today it is happening with people like David Duke as guest speakers of the Iranian leaders.
It's ludicrous...maybe we should let Iran take Lebanon & Iraq like Austria and Poland were absorbed by Germany...then some evil regime and ally of Iran will attack us before we even react. Can anyone deny the similarities? And if they can, why would they?
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