Max Boot's Dangerous, Deluded Vision

What I find interesting is using 20/20 vision as perspective of historical events that happened 40 years ago. And yet, that same 20/20 vision was the perspective used as a catalyst of Korea and Viet Nam. Which all stemmed from Germany and Russias conquest of Europe and Asia.

How quickly we forget 1930 British Appeasment policy under Neville Chamberlain and how he caved to Nazi Agression? Now we look back and say that Neville Chamberlain was the biggest coward in the world. The spread of Nazi Germany could/should/would have been held in check had Europe been more united and the British had bigger cajones. But alas, no. The world stilled licked its fresh wounds sustained from WWI and was loathe to repeat the atrocity. So, people/nations capitulated in the face of aggression. That was the lesson learned and the lesson applied to naked aggression by communist aggression visa vie Korea and Viet Nam.

So, win/lose/draw the message was clear to communist expansion: Communist hegemony would come at a price.

Furthermore, I spent two years in Colombia (1993-1995). I can tell you with certainty that politically that nation was a hair away from absolute anarchy had the United States not intervened to the extent it did. Now, today, Colombia is politically more stable. The country is not out of the woods yet, but it is going in the right direction.

david of ID 9:51AM July 12, 2011