Oh, let’s discuss the last century like it was last night. We have the Hindenburg disaster, Titanic, several World Wars, and some UN enforcement activities.
I spent time at Fort Knox, and saw where they staged their trains, which in years gone by would have included tanks, APC’s, and probably artillery.
My question is this: why would we not have had peace from 1950 to the present without Communism? For that matter, why would we have had FASCISM, if Communism had never existed? Please remember that a principle criticism Hitler levied, that was apparently widely shared, was that Jews were Bolsheviks. Germans didn’t like Bolsheviks.
If you look at the last century dispassionately, what becomes clear quickly is how much unnecessary suffering there was. There were liberal ideas in play, but they were marginalized. We the United States had to fight repeated wars to protect the very idea of Liberalism. Many good men died.
Why? This is the question. The answer is not that “war is never the answer”. Clearly, it IS sometimes the answer. Sometimes it is the ONLY answer.
We fought wars for a very simple reason: other nations did not desire peace. Communists, in particular, did not desire peace. They wanted, on the contrary, world domination, and were prepared to see unlimited numbers of deaths of all sorts to see it happen.
And what then? Then, the intellectuals would have had total control of innocent people, to terrorize as they pleased, and terror was something they always secretly admired and wanted.
This is the actual history of the last one hundred years. Howard Zinn would lie about it, but the Communist bastard is dead.
It is perhaps wrong to speak ill of the dead, but not in this case. That prick has found out that Hell does in fact exist.
Whiskey involved, but I never regret, fundamentally, things posted when I’ve had a few. These are my honest–and principled–opinions.