Posted by
jaxgeorge on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:24:53 PM
IN GEORGE WILLS LATEST COLUMN HE ARGUES AGAINST THE USE OF FORCE AGAINST IRAN/SYRIA. HE COMPARES THE PRESENT SITUATION WITH THE COLD WAR AND OUR USE OF NON-INTERVENTION TO BRING DOWN THE SOVIENT UNION THREAT. TO BEGIN WITH THE COLD WAR WAS BETWEEN TWO SUPPOSED ALLIES (ROOSEVELT MADE SURE WE WERE RUSSIAN ALLIES). THE ISSUE WAS WHO WOULD HAVE THE FIRST STRIKE CAPABILITY IF IT CAME TO A NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN BETWEEN COMMUNIST RUSSIA AND AMERICA. WE BOTH HAD THE WEAPONS BUT THE RACE WAS ON TO SEE WHO HAD THE BIGGER THREAT OF ANNIHILATION. EVENTUALLY THE COOMUNISTS RAN OUT OF RUBLES.
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IN IRAN AND SYRIA THEY ARE AT THIS POINT IN TIME FRANTICLY BUILDING A NUCLEAR DTRIKE CAPABILTY. ALL RELIABLE INTELLIGENCE INDICATES THE IRANIANS HAVE NUCLEAR CAPABILITY, BUT DO NOT YET AHVE THE BOMBS OR ROCKEST TO DELIVER THEM EFFECTIVELY. WHY WAIT AS WILL ADVOCATES?
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IN 1936 NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN AS PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND WAS SYMPATHETIC TO THE GERMANS, WHOM HE THOUGHT WERE TREATED POORLY AFTER WWI. AS SUCH HE ADVOCATED ALLOWING HITLER SOME LATITUDE IN HIS GRIEVANCES. THE MAIN CONCESSION THAT HE GRANTED TO HITLER IN 1936 AT THE MINCH CONFERENCE WAS THE RETURN OF THE SUDATENLAND TO GERMANY. CHAMBERLAIN RETURNED FROM THE MUNICH CONFERENCE TO PROCLAIM THT PEACE WAS ASSURED BY HITLER AND BENITO MUSSOLINI AT THE MUNICH CONFERENCE.
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ALL THIS DID WAS GIVE HITLER MORE TIME TO BUILD HIS WAR MACHINE, AND IN 1938 HE NOT ONLY TOOK THE REST OF CHECHOSLOVAKIA, BUT INVADED POLAND. CHAMBERLAIN WAS FORCED TO ADMIT HE WAS WRONG AND DECLARED WAR ON A MUCH STRONGER GERMANY.