Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Fight Against the Darkness

Columnist Bethany Blankley has an excellent piece today at Townhall about being resolute against evil and cites Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher as examples. Here is an interesting quote from Churchill in 1936 regarding then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that is just as apropos today:

“Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war.”

This was followed 2 years later by Churchill's recognition after Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler at Munich that the end-game with the Nazis was at hand:

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

Think of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and a host of lesser lights when you read these quotes because they are trotting out today the same sort of wishful thinking as a substitute for resolutely confronting the evil of ISIS, Russia, Iran and a host of other evil actors on the world stage. Sadly, it will end up the same way and we will be presented with a major war not because we want it, but because the bad actors of the world do and we did not stop them when we could.
townhall.com/columnists/bethanyblankley/2014/12/08/british--american-christianity-denial-and-inertia-no-match-for-resolute-wickedness-n1929132

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