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August 19, 2006
1938 vs. 2006
Caroline Glick, writing in August 2006 in the Jerusalem Post (h/t to Dr. Sanity):
In the not so distant future, we will find ourselves at war with Iran. Today, the choice of whether we fight that war in our own time, and before Iran gets nuclear weapons is in our hands. If we hesitate, if we and the rest of the free world waste precious time with worthless diplomatic wrangling with the ayatollahs, war will come to us, but on the enemy's terms. And we will have only ourselves to blame.
Winston Churchill, in a radio address before the outbreak of World War II:
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Hindsight is 20/20 and crystal balls aren't worth a damn. In 1938 Churchill didn't know Hitler would be defeated any more than Caroline Glick knows that Israel won't be destroyed by Iran. All we have is reliance on our native reason and the study of history.
Wringing our hands and idly wishing for the best is as stupid and lethal now as it was 68 years ago.
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