Old Veteran
An 80 year old Veteran, who was in the Korean War and World War II gave
a little history lesson and his thoughts today on War. It is a
different look at the War.
Thoughts to think about:
I'm not going to get into a history lesson. The short, short version is
that the League of Nations (established after WW I to prevent wars)
failed to stop Mussolini's Italy from invading and conquering Ethiopia.
It failed to stop Japan from invading and conquering Manchuria and much
of China. Their committees wrung their hands spoke in platitudes but did
absolutely nothing to stop war.
At France's coaxing Britain's prime minister Nevil Chamberlain met with
Adolph Hitler in Munich and surrendered the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany
in
the interest of "peace in our time." The French and British watched as
Germany took Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia. They all had committee
meetings and wrung their hands and talked of peace. World War II erupted
when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Britain had a mutual defense treaty
with Poland so they couldn't escape. They declared war
on Germany. Germany had a mutual defense treaty with Japan so Japan
declared war on Britain. France wet their pants and surrendered to
Germany as fast as they could and gleefully shipped all the Jews they
could find to death camps in Germany to prove to Adolph that they really
were on the side of Germany.
Japan attacked the United States and, because of Japan's mutual defense
treaty with Germany, Germany declared war on the United States. Up until
December 7th and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a large number of
our people were wringing their hands and saying, "Appease Hitler. He is
really a good guy who just needed a little more land for his expanding
population. The dear man just wants peace. And World War II was in full
swing leaving better than 50,000,000 people dead including about 45,000
American soldiers and sailors. Three cheers for the League of Nations!
After World War II it was decided to do the whole thing all over again.
This time we would call it the United Nations and we will have committee
meetings and hand wringing parties and make sure peace prevails
throughout
the land.
While that august body wrung hands the Soviet Union split Germany,
invaded Poland and Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria along with
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The peaceful world saw Korea with 37,000
American soldiers killed, over 1,000,000 South Korean soldiers and
civilians killed and the country nearly destroyed. Since then we have
had over 50,000 American soldiers killed in Vietnam and have fought wars
in Somalia, Herzegovenia, Panama, Granada,plus the Gulf War when Iraq
invaded Kuwait.
We should have gone into Baghdad and taken out that evil regime then but
the United Nations would have no part of that. All they would allow was
for us to chase the Iraqis out of Kuwait, then peace would prevail. Now,
here we are with Saddam violating all 17 United Nations resolutions
while he has massed poison gas and bio weapons. He is frantically trying
to develop a nuke and his buddy, Kim Jong-Il of North
Korea may give him a few. (It was the United Nations who prevented us
from
taking North Korea when the war was hot and we had the means to do it.)
Peace!!!!!!!! Sure.
France is wetting their collective pants in fear that the United States
will take Saddam out and along with him, France's 60 billion dollar
contracts with Iraq. Russia hedges because Iraq owes them 6 billion
dollars that they sorely need.
In answer to your question....... hell yes we should go to war with
Iraq. We should have done it six months ago. We should also get out of
the United Nat ions. Can you believe that the United Nations has
appointed Iraq and Syria to head up the United Nations Disarmament
Committee? Can you believe they have appointed Libya to head up the
Human Rights Committee?
All three of these countries are on the UN List of Terrorist
States............. Absolutely unbelievable. Just don't get me going.
Throughout recorded history the only time peace has prevailed is when
the good guys have militarily whipped the bad guys. Who are our best
friends in the world? Japan because we whipped them. Germany because
we whipped them. Italy because we whipped them. Britain because we
whipped them.
This is one opinion, on the War but this is the eyes, ears and heart of
an American Veteran...
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