Posted on 07/05/2008 1:11:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The lyric from the old pop song that proclaimed "Don't Know Much About History," is a label that could well be applied to many Americans.
But despite the fact that surveys occasionally tell us that many college seniors place the Battle of Gettysburg as happening sometime in the middle of World War II, the study of history isn't merely for those hobbyists who like to pose as Civil War or Revolutionary era soldiers.
Even as we debate the largely unpopular wars being fought with Islamists in Iraq and Afghanistan, the focus of another crucial debate currently raging on the bookshelves and television screens is one over the merits of something that most of us had long thought was not debatable: the wisdom of the American involvement in World War II.
THE NOTION that there is any debate at all about the war the United States fought against the German Nazis and the Japanese imperialists seems absurd. Surely, no reasonable person could dispute the necessity of defeating Hitler. But an argument there is, and it is one that is gaining momentum.
In recent months, two works questioning the justice of the fight against Nazi Germany have vaulted onto The New York Times bestseller list: Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker and Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War by Patrick Buchanan. Baker is a quirky novelist who has penned books about a wide variety of subjects including voyeurism and a fictional attempted assassination of President George W. Bush. Buchanan is the longtime far-right pundit and television personality, and one-time independent candidate for president, whose views were once rightly labeled as anti-Semitic by the late William F. Buckley.
Their books are as different as the authors.
Baker's effort is the effort of a more accomplished prose writer (despite its fictionalized conversations involving world leaders...
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I agree with CS Lewis, whose general contention were there actually are a limited number of true pacifists who truly and deeply, to the the core of their being, abhor violence; however, the vast majority of self-proclaimed pacifists and peace lovers are most likely, mere cowards.
And many of those in the vast majority portion are simply lovers of the enemy, no matter how that enemy happens to be.
Go to any large organized “peace march” and you’ll find flag carrying contingents of every enemy we face marching proudly, openly and with full acceptance and support of the “pacifists”.
It isn’t about ending violence. It’s about ending us.
“It isn’t about ending violence. It’s about ending us.”
Could not have said that better. Both wars with Islamic terrorists and WWII were about world domination and subjugation of all to one idealogy/person. It will ultimately fail in the end.
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