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| The War Is Coming Whether We Like It Or Not... |
| 2006-09-01 |
| Superb article and check the link for Cox and Forkum's grim cover cartoon they drew for it - Mike by Robert Tracinski I have noticed a recent trend in war commentary, starting a few weeks after the beginning of the current conflict in Lebanon. The trend began with a series of analogies between recent events and the events of the 1930s, leading up to World War II. In the August 2 Washington Times, for example, Kenneth Timmerman referred to the Lebanon War as "Islamofascism's 1936." Just as the Spanish Civil War that began in that year was a preview of World War II—the 1937 bombing of Guernica was Hermann Goering's test of the ability of aerial bombing to destroy cities—so Timmerman argues that the Lebanon War is a preview of a larger conflict: "Iran…is testing the international community's response, as it prepares for a future war." (TIA Daily readers may remember that Jack Wakeland made a similar point in the July 19 edition of TIA Daily.) For others on the pro-war right, the preferred analogy is 1938, the year in which Western appeasement of Hitler emboldened him to further attacks. That year's Munich Agreement—the "diplomatic solution" to a German-fomented crisis in Czechoslovakia, abandoned Czechoslovakia to Hitler in exchange for promises that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain claimed would guarantee "peace for our time." On August 7, the headline of a Washington Times editorial asked: is the Bush administration's proposed diplomatic solution for Lebanon an attempt to secure "Peace in Our Time?" |
| Posted by:Ebbons Thrinenter9309 |
| #5 A blogger on FREEREPUBLIC.com opined that in a few years, the Left(s) will lead an insurrection in America to forcibly but PC/PDeniably impose Socialism and OWG, and later the West - Still gotta wonder how compatible Secular Socialist OWG is gonna be against God/Faith-based Socialist OWG aka Global Caliphate/Islamist State. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-01 21:59 |
| #4 Some of the money lines: It is, indeed, "five minutes to midnight"—not just for Israel, but for the West. The time is very short now before we will have to confront Iran. The only question is how long we let events spin out of our control, and how badly we let the enemy hit us before we begin fighting back. We can't avoid this war, because Iran won't let us avoid it. Like Hitler, Ahmadinejad regards the free nations of the world as fading "sunset" powers, too morally weak to resist his legions of Muslim fanatics. And when we hesitate to kill Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq, when we pressure Israel to rein in its attacks on Hezbollah, when we pander to the anti-Jewish bigotry of the "Muslim street"—we reinforce his impression of our weakness. Today's leaders and commentators have less excuse. The "horror" they are afraid of repeating is the insurgency we're fighting in Iraq—a war whose cost in lives, dollars, and resolve is among the smallest America has ever had to pay. And it takes no great feat of imagination to project how much more horrible the coming conflict will be if we wait on events long enough for Iran to arm itself with nuclear technology. Among the horrific consequences is the specter of a new Holocaust, courtesy of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Spot-effing-on, almost dishearteningly so. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 19:09 |
| #3 I believe this is correct. It has been Bush's weak point. It's very important to connect with the American public. They need to be kept current and well informed of issues as large as real war. FDR was the master at this. Bush needs to make weekly policy announcements, gradually leading to the conditions for an all out attack on Iran and other trouble spots. Americans don't like surprises, yet they fail their civic duty to remained informed. Bush is not only commander in chief, decider in chief, he's communicator in chief. He needs to get with it. If he can't do it, let Cheney roll. Cheney's very good at framing isuues, he just frightens half the public like Barry Goldwater did, because he lays it on straight without any gilding. This always causes violent regurgitation in the liberal ranks. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-01 12:33 |
| #2 A good read, Mike - Thanks. I think Tracinski is one of the better WoT analysts around. |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-01 10:15 |
| #1 ...I posted this BTW, not sure why I've (pardon the expression) lost my cookie. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-01 10:10 |
