*Who wants war?---interventionist neocons and land thieving zionist
warmongers.war does not create peace or security.*
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:44:35 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote:
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> http://humanevents.com/2014/09/23/who-wants-war/#.VCHY7z7Qk6I.email
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> *Who wants war?*
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> By: Thomas Sowell <http://humanevents.com/author/thomas-sowell/>
> 9/23/2014 06:00 AM
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> Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his
> response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most
> Americans don’t want another war.
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> In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war.
> That is something we should be proud of. But wars are not always optional.
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> Even World War II — which some have called “the good war” — was not
> something that most Americans wanted. But the Japanese took that decision
> out of our hands when they bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. And
> Hitler removed any possible doubt when he declared war on us shortly
> afterward, making sure that we were in the war all over the world.
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> No one has promoted the dangerous notion that war is optional more than
> Barack Obama. He declared peace in Iraq when he pulled American troops out,
> and he declared victory over Al Qaeda because his administration had killed
> bin Laden (with an assist from the Navy SEALS). But all this make-believe
> has come back to haunt him, as make-believe often does.
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> Make no mistake about it, make-believe wins elections — and winning
> elections is Obama’s thing. The big problem is that the things that win
> elections are not the things that win wars.
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> With an eye on the upcoming Congressional elections, Barack Obama has
> assured all and sundry that there will be no American “boots on the ground”
> in the fight against ISIS. But telling your enemy in advance what you will
> or will not do is not the way to win wars.
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> This is not rocket science, and Obama either already knows it or he has
> military advisers who will tell him, if he will listen. But the military
> have their priorities and Obama has his, even if his political priorities
> can end up costing far more American lives than hitting ISIS with
> everything we have got ASAP.
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> The longer the war drags on, through half-measures and tentative tactics,
> the longer ISIS has to recalibrate its strategies and to sneak its agents
> into the United States, to launch terrorist attacks inside the American
> homeland. We can either kill them over there now or have them kill
> Americans here later.
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> The longer our potential allies have to wonder whether President Obama is
> serious, the longer they will hold back from making full commitments,
> knowing how the Obama administration began by betraying existing American
> commitments to Poland and the Czech Republic, followed by undermining
> Israel’s position in the Middle East and then throwing Ukraine to the
> wolves when push came to shove, by refusing to let them have weapons to
> defend themselves.
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> When Winston Churchill surveyed the staggering magnitude of worldwide
> carnage and destruction at the end of World War II, he said that there was
> never a war easier to prevent than the one which had just devastated so
> much of the world.
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> He said that the earlier we would have opposed Hitler, the lower the cost
> would have been. At one time, according to Churchill, a memorandum could
> have stopped Hitler, given the balance of military power against him early
> on.
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> When Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland in 1936, in violation of
> major international treaties, the military commanders in charge of those
> troops had orders to retreat at the first sign of French military
> opposition, since France alone at that point could have overwhelmed the
> German army as it existed then.
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> Although France at that point was militarily capable of stopping Hitler in
> his tracks, and preventing World War II, politically the French government
> dared not move. The French people, with the horrors of the First World War
> still painfully vivid in their memories, wanted no part in military
> operations.
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> The net result was that Hitler grew stronger militarily over the years and
> then invaded France at a time of his choosing. The French then found
> themselves at war, whether they wanted to be or not. And they soon found
> themselves defeated and subjugated under Nazi rule.
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> Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous
> illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies
> have already made that choice.
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> Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the
> enemy says it’s over. We may think it’s over, we may declare it over, but
> in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”
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> *Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
> University.*
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