My latest in PJ Media:
Imagine what the world might be like today if World War II had been fought the way the defense against the global jihad has been.
Imagine it is December 7, 1961, the twentieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, and people have grown weary of the war. President Adlai E. Stevenson (who swept into office promising a return to normal after the tumultuous Eisenhower years) gives what was then something new: a nationally televised address. He looks determinedly into the cameras and says:
My fellow Americans: On this day, as we remember the 2,403 lives taken from us at Pearl Harbor on this fateful day twenty years ago, I am reminded of the fundamental obligation of a President, which is to defend and protect America — not against threats of 1941, but against the threats of 1961 and tomorrow.
Yes, I confess it, I’ve cast poor Adlai here as something of a proto-Biden, for it was the current occupant of the Oval Office who recently said: “The fundamental obligation of a President, in my opinion, is to defend and protect America — not against threats of 2001, but against the threats of 2021 and tomorrow.”
The implication was clear. Jihad? Old Joe wants to say goodbye to all that. The threat of 2021, as he and members of his administration have made clear numerous times, comes from “white supremacists.” Now, you’re forgiven if you haven’t noticed “white supremacists” committing terror attacks around the country (if they did, what would they shout? “Robert Byrd Is Great”?). By “white supremacists,” Biden’s handlers mean the supportive environment that nourished the January 6 “insurrectionists” who weren’t insurrectionists; that is, ordinary, law-abiding Americans who supported Trump over Biden and take a dim view of the nose dive America has taken since Old Joe took office.
So: What if the America of 1961 were dealing with a situation similar to that of America today. Twenty years after a massive attack and still embroiled in a conflict with those who hold the same ideology as the attackers, but with leadership that is anxious to pretend that conflict is over and that a different one is upon us? The fictional President Stevenson might indulge himself with a victory lap:
As Nazi rule has returned to Berlin, I can’t say that I’m pleased as they parade around with $85 billion in American military hardware, or with the fact that Americans are still stranded in Berlin, but I must thank them for the fact that they have shown flexibility, and they have been businesslike and professional in our dealings with them.
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mike says
we would either be speaking German, Japanese or Italian
Jews, Gypsy, mentality challenged, Blacks, would all me either gone or enslaved to build these 3 conquerors worlds.
Germany wanted only a WHITE Arian race
Japan wanted Japan people to be able to have room to expand
and
Mussolini was a follower
so the left thinks it bad, what really shames me is we do not teach history
and here we are
repeating it for those of us old enough to either lived it or lost family because of it
wake up before it’s to late and get others to see it before it’s to late
gravenimage says
This sounds like apologia for the horrors of Fascism.
But given the antisemitic tripe we often see from Mike here, this grimly does not surprise.
Walter Sieruk says
This Taliban mockery ,affront, happened because of that despicable treasonous pseudo “President” Joe Biden.
Walter Sieruk says
To be more clear then the above…
This Taliban mockery ,affront against US soldiers and America happened because of that despicable treasonous pseudo “President” Joe Biden.
Infidel says
Short answer: we’d all be worshiping Emperor Naruhito today. Still a better alternative to following islam
Michael Copeland says
Tony Blair would be saying:
“There is not a problem with Nazism… there is no doubt about its true and peaceful nature.”
“At the root of the crisis lies a radicalised and politicised view of Nazism, an ideology that distorts and warps Nazism’s true message ……… acting in a manner wholly in contradiction to the proper teaching of Mein Kampf”.
James Lincoln says
+1
gravenimage says
Spot on, Michael.
Steve says
Err excuse me but we did. FDR sold out Eastern Europe to Stalin at the Yalta Conference. Did you forget the Millions Stalin killed? Did you forget what happened to the Baltics, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, Central and Eastern Europe as a whole.? How many millions died during the 45 years of Russian/USSR rule? They were abandoned by FDR just like Biden abandoned Afghanistan.
Terry Gain says
Steve
You can’t fight a war without the support of the public. America had to be dragged into the second world war by the attack on Pearl Harbor. The war started on September 1, 1939 and America did not enter the war until 2 years 3 months and 1 week later. America would not have supported a war against the Soviet Union in 1945.
John says
You can’t win a war with the current rules of engagement. We’d still be fighting WW II. Remember we carpet bombed every German city killing men women and children. We nuked two Japanese cities.
FDR was a sick dying old man when he erroneously gave Stalin Eastern Europe. Uncle Joe seems to be in a similar condition which makes anyone with a brain shudder.
gravenimage says
Steve, most Eastern Europeans were *not* committed Commumists in 1945. But Afghanistan is statistically 100% Muslim, and over 99% of the people there want to see the imposition of Shari’ah law.
As soon as the Iron Curtain countries were able to, they freed themselves from the Soviet Union and ditched Communism–and few in these countries regretted it. But *very* few Afghans left Islam–an estimated 5000 Christians and an uncertain small number of Atheists.
Not really the same thing at all.
Terry Gain says
9/11 was an attack by devout Muslims. Unlike WW II, America was not attacked by a country. It was attacked by adherents of an evil ideology. It is ludicrous to suggest that an intelligent response can in any way be the same as in WW II.
Attack what motivated the attack. Attack Islam .
tgusa says
The attack on Pearl Harbor, mostly peaceful bombing raids.
With love,
The US media.
bill says
You mean treat them with respect and one hand tied behind your backs, see Obummer’s rules of engagement. Remember the Nazis were fanatics and the Japanese thought it an honour to die for the Emperor like the jihadis thinking it is good to die for ‘allah’.
The Nazis and the Japanese Empire were far more formidable opponents than the Tban
gravenimage says
What If We Had Fought World War II the Way We’ve Fought Jihadis?
……………….
There was actually a great deal of apologia for the Fascists before WWII–but once we committed to fight we did so all out, and without false moral equivalence.