Who said this?
Who said the words below and what was (s)he talking about?I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but which must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat. ...
It is the most grievous consequence of what we have done and of what we have left undone in the last five years - five years of futile good intentions, five years of eager search for the line of least resistance, five years of uninterrupted retreat ... five years of neglect of our defences....
Our loyal, brave people...should know the truth. They should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defences; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road; they should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history ... and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies:
"Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting."
Here's a picture of the man who said it:And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
You can find the full text of Winston Churchill's speech in the House of Commons after Chamberlain's return from Munich here (Hat Tip: William Kristol).
Labels: 1930's, Barack Hussein Obama, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Neville Chamberlain, P 5+1, Winston Churchill
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:01 AM
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Here's another one. Immediately after Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany's one and only declaration of war, on the US, Winston Churchill came to the US to confer with Roosevelt
In his Nobel Prize for Literature-winning "The Second World War", Churchill related the following story. Churchill stayed at the White House for a week, conferring with Roosevelt. Roosevelt said to Churchill that after the war, he-Roosevelt- was going to write a book about this war and asked for Churchill's suggestion for a title.
Churchill immediately replied "The Unnecessary War". Churchill then spent a chapter outlining how, chronologically, World War Two could have been prevented. First, with no risk, then with little risk, then with more risk. Finally, when the Allies, "having sacrificed Honor to save Peace, thereby losing both, in the worst possible set of circumstances, drew the line and war came." OR words to that effect. It's been a few years since I read the books.
When Hitler & Co. re-occupied the Rhineland, contrary to the Versailles Treaty, and when British PM Stanley Baldwin supinely noted that "after all, he's only going into his own back garden", Germany couldn't have even put a single division into the field. The same battalions were marched over by day, marched back by night, then marched back again the next day. If the Allied Powers had stood up to the Nazis then, as Churchill put it, "we could easily have put Hitler in a political dilemma that would have probably cost him his life." Hitler's hold on Germany was at that point far from absolute. But ignorance, naivety and cowardice won the day.
Sound familiar?
This is why I'm so frustrated at the Western World's mesmerised appeasement of islamofascism. These are 7th century savages and, as noted by Mark Steyn, Israel is just the canary in the coal mine. Wherever there's islam, there's trouble and conflict. All the West need do is toss the appeasement mentality out and stand up to these people.
I remember well the Six Day War, being a teenager at the time, and how quickly Israel took eastern Jerusalem, after a short, intense firefight. One Israeli general, who's name escapes me, who had the Engineer troops and explosives right on hand, wanted to immediately send them up to the Temple Mount and rid God's Holy Mountain of that golden domed abomination. Several other generals stopped him.
This may sound flip of me, I'm not an Israeli, nor a Jew and I don't have to live next door to all those people. However, I think that was a mistake. What would they have done? Hate you any more than they already do? Is that even possible?
The Temple Mount, those few acres unique on God's earth...I say this without the least flippancy and as a Christian Zionist, there should only be a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount. Want a mosque, or church? Sorry, you'll have to build it elsewhere.
(BTW, I see in the Bible a number of references to "the abomination that causes desolation". I don't pretend to be a great scholar or theologian, can anyone please explain to me what that means?)
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