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By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted December 04, 2010 at 22:32:41
Nothing new there. Google Neville Chamberlain and the phrase Peace in Our Time. That worked out real well didn't it? A little party called World War II followed shortly.
Pacifism, and appeasement have been around since the first dude that sharpened a stick into a spear and decided he wanted his neighbours goat. The guy with the goat figured if he just talked to buddy with the spear and reasoned with him things would be ok. He ended up with the spear sticking out of his gut and was now minus one goat. It took a while but the other neighbours soon figured out that if they wanted to keep their goats, they better sharpen some sticks of their own and be prepared to use them.
I find it amusing to read the vitriol and hyperbole of sites like this(anti-war.com) and movements that support them. They rail against their own governments (which are always western democracies) as being "imperialistic" and under the thumb of the "military industrial complex" and controled by "big oil". The irony is completely lost on them that the only reason they can spew such garbage is that they live in a society in which an entire generation sacrificed their youth so that they may have the liberty that they do. They are usually upper middle class "educated" professional protesters who have never lived a day under duress or desperation in their lives. They speak as if they have some kind of in depth knowledge of world affairs when in fact they don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.
There are bad people in the world. They don't reside in the offices of power in Washington or Ottawa or London or Paris or Berlin. Our societies are not perfect. But they are the closest thing to it on this planet. If that wasn't the case people wouldn't be cramming themselves by the hundreds on to garbage scows and sailing across oceans for months at a time at great peril to get here.
Bad people need to be confronted and held to account and if necessary dispatched. Harsh yes, but the truth none the less. Around 65 million people died between 1939 and 1945 in order for us to learn that lesson. The pacifists and appeasers were in charge when that started. They had an opportunity in 1938 to put Hitler in his place. They caved and turned tail and ran. That gave ole Adolph all the encouragement he needed. Less than a year later Poland was burning and the rest is history.
Yep, lets just hold hands and sing a few choruses of Kumbaya. It'll all be ok.
Comment edited by Shempatolla on 2010-12-04 21:37:13
Cheers
Greg Galante
Hamilton
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