The Mythology of Munich

How can you say we lost in Vietnam? Look at Vietnam today and see how close they are to communism or how close they are to Capitalism. We won every battle. We only got out of there because the people at home had enough. The "war" was a police action, not a true war. We haven't been in a true war since WWII. Whenever we have to appease the country whose land we are fighting on, it is not a war.

Another daily pro-Nobama story from News"WEAK". I expect it from MediaSplatters , MoRon.org or from Keith Blowberman's daily rants. Anything Barry does is spun in his favor. There's a reason why the Iran hostages were released as soon as Reagan took office. The Iranians knew he would not be a total pushover like Jimmy "444" Carter. Talking may not be such a bad thing but you need to have some muscle to back it up. There's not much work for 135 pound bouncers at nightclubs and bars.

My mistake Churchill was indeed a Conservative. But the point stands that Churchill attacked Chamberlain, then benefitted from his policies.

What people forget about Chamberlain is that in the mid 30's his government revitalized British war industry and specifically the British aircraft industry. During the critical Battle of Britain the "few" had fighter planes to fly because of Chamberlain's foresight. He struggled mightily for peace but also quietly prepared for war.

So the question is: was he stalling for time? There is some serious reconsideration of Chamberlain being done by British historians.

Take overs can be either abroad and home based. I support John McCain's strong stance on our relationship with Israel. I worry more about the very sudden news of the DNC moving headquarters to Chicago. They say Adolph Hitler's first tactical move was to divide the country, yet he claimed he wanted change and peace and for everyone to work together. Sound familiar? This decision to move the DNC to Chicago was not made overnight. This is a slick maneuver by a power hungry person with a self serving agenda. America beware! http://firstmention.com/hitler.aspx

All of this is great, but at the end of the day Americans know that Obama has a knee-jerk wussie reaction to national security. Talk all you want, Newsweek.

Answering the question, "What would Churchill do?", comparing him to Bush, first you would have to say that he would speak English, which Bush has yet to learn. It was always a comedy show to see Bush and Tony Blair standing side by side talking to the press. Bush would garble some unintelligible drivel, and Tony would ensue with, "What the president means is.....", and then make up an eloquent rescue speech for the occasion.
Second, there is no way to figure what Churchill would do with our situation. There are far too many variables to even guess. He was a very well educated man with a high capacity to run a government, all the while extremely versed in ancient and modern history, as well as extensive intelligence on Germany's activities from the back doors of British Intelligence. Moreover, he had had extensive military experience in more than one war prior to becoming Prime Minister. None of these qualities ever existed in our president whose crowning achievement at Yale was leading cheers at sporting contests. Apparently they had canceled the English classes while he was there.

When Iran starts rolling tanks into neighboring countries [As Hitler did], I could see the comparison. But they aren't. Being Iraq was the first unprovoked war in American history, and after being stuck there longer then we were in WWII, haven't the neocons learned their lesson yet? Being McCain supports Bush's preemptive policies (bomb, bomb Iran), obviously not...

Churchill was a racist through and through. He advocated for the gassing of Iraqis during English occupation, an errie resemblance to Hitler's later Mein Kampf statement that WWI would not have been lost had the heads of thousands of Jews been held under the gas. Churchill was an imperialist as cold and ruthless as any dirty Roman enslaving emperor. Under his cold-blooded rule, Gandhi saw his wife die in prison. Churchill was also incompetent and likely criminally so in his failure to properly monitor two German ships who, under allied flags, slipped his navy and bombarded the Turks, bringing the Turks into the WWI on the German side. He ruthlessly botched the Gallipoli campaign. He murderously delayed the bombing of the trains that led to the concentration camps, dooming millions of Jews, Roma, Slavs, and others to unspeakable deaths. He also cold bloodedly delayed the second front in World War II, dooming millions of Russions to die in a heroic fight against the Nazi regime. As Churchill's personal physician said, he wanted to have the Russians and Nazis tear each other up; unfortunately for Churchill, the incompetent, the Russians swept the Germans back to Germany. Churchill was a racist and vastly overestimated. Bloviating and stolen speeches hardly make a man a man.