Monday, September 16, 2013

Obama: An American Chamberlain

Blog: Obama: An American Chamberlain:
"It is, in short, not too much to speak of the week just past as another Munich.
In particular, one could fairly quote Winston Churchill's bitter speech to the House of Commons after that false peace:
"We have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat...
We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude...
[O]ur loyal, brave people...should know the truth.
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 are weighed in the balance and found wanting.'"

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