Riding the Weak Horse II

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote that he detected a whiff of the 1930s in the air. And he is correct, there are a host of similarities between the bizarre appeasement practiced by Baldwin, Chamberlain, Dadalier, and Halifax and the inability of Tony Blair and George Bush to identify the enemy, much less wage effectual war against it.

Nor is Hanson the only one to draw a '30sanalogy. Robert Tracinski, in an excellent, if misguided article entitled Five Minutes to Midnight catalogs similar analogies attempting to equate the current situation with that faced by the Western Powers in 1936, 1938 and 1939. However, like the recalcitrant world democratic revolutionists, Tracinski follows the analogies to an incorrect conclusion in arguing that a strike against Iran is the correct next step required to fight the war on terms advantageous to the West.

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