Tuesday, August 15, 2006

world opinion

(mild profanity warning)

Two different but related posts remind Israel just how worthless the world's opinion is. Another post reminds us what happens when we listen to peaceniks.
In August 1939, political pundits and all the other "smart people" of the world believed that world war could be avoided if only the parties in these minor conflicts would talk and come to an agreement for the common cause and the natural desire of mankind for peace. 6 years later, 62 million people around the world had died for (that) foolishness...

How different the world might be had the world leaders decided at that time that Hitler should have been stopped when he reoccupied the Ruhr. How different the world would be if we had worked against Japan in China in 1933. How different the world might be if so many of our side hadn't collaborated with the Axis powers and quietly admired the forces of fascism...

Let us hope that the lesson of that war was learned by this generation so as to avoid another tragedy for the losses in the next war will surely prove to be far beyond what was experienced in that generation.
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