There was no moment in these sixteen years when the three former allies, or even Britain and France with their associates in Europe, could not in the name of the League of Nations and under its moral and international shield have controlled by mere effort of the will of armed strength of Germany.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

It is difficult to find a parallel to the unwisdom of the British and the weakness of the French Governments, who none the less reflected the opinion of their Parliaments in this disastrous period. Nor can the United States escape the censure of history. Absorbed in their own affairs and all the abounding interests, activities, and accidents of a free community, they simply gaped at the vast changes which were taking place in Europe and imagined they were none of their concern.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

By the autumn of 1933 it was plain that neither by precept nor still less by example would the British effort for disarmament succeed. The pacifism of the Labour and Liberal Parties was not effected even by the grave event of the German withdrawl from the League of Nations. Both continued in the name of peace to urge British disarmament, and anyone who differed was called “warmonger” and “scaremonger.” It appeared that their feeling was endorsed by the people, who of course did not understand what was unfolding.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

Until the middle of 1934 control of the events was still largely in the hands of His Majesty’s Government without the risk of war. They could at any time, in concert with France and through the League of Nations, have brought an overwhelming power to bear upon the Hitler Movement, about which Germany was profoundly divided.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

Don’t believe that anyone in the world will hinder me in my decisions [to invade Austria and Czechoslovakia]! Italy? I am quite clear that they are with Mussolini: with Italy I am on the closest of terms. England? England will not lift a finger for Austria…And France? Well, two years ago when we marched into the Rhineland with a handful of battalions [breaking the 1991 Treaty of Versailles]-at that moment I risked a great deal. If France had marched then we should have been forced to withdraw….but for France it is too late!
-Adolph Hitler, 1938

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of NAZI rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the Old.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

It’s worth noting that last month, in response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia (a nation that NATO members had individually promised to protect, and did not), the United States signed an agreement with Poland in which the U.S.(like Britain and France before) promised that if Poland was invaded by Russia (again), the U.S. would defend Poland. In response, Russian leaders openly declared that Poland was now a legitimate military target.

Also on this day….

• 9/1/90 An emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo calls for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, pay reparations, and allow foreigners to leave Iraq and Kuwait (note, this is but one of many diplomatic efforts that show Saddam was not given a free pass by the world to invade Kuwait).
• 9/1/91 Dr. David Kay leads a UN WMD inspection team into Khidhir Hamza’s apartment and takes a box of secret files detailing the Iraqi nuclear program. The inspectors immediately realize the value of the find and leave the building in haste. They are blocked by Iraqi IIS guards, and for 3 days they are prohibited from leaving until they returned the secret plans for Iraq’s nuclear bomb and factory. (note: this violation of the cease-fire agreement terms (among many others) effectively re-authorizes the hostilities between Saddam’s Iraq and the world.  A peace agreement is permanent, but a cease-fire is only valid until one side or the other violatesit.  Then, it is invalid, and no longer effective).
• 9/1/92 [1993 World Trade Center bomber ] Ramsi Yousef (aka “Rashid the Iraqi”) arrives in United States
• 9/1/93 Fall 1993 Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri is in Somalia acting as field commander of the “Afghan Arabs” and coordinator between those fighters, Iraqi fighters, Iranian intelligence, and the various Somali warlords….all against the US/UN forces.  (note: the Clinton Admin verified this through captured Al Queda members and included it as item #4 in the Clinton Admin indictment of Osama Bin Laden.  Later, documents captured in Afghanistan and Iraq further confirmed this example of ties between Saddams regime and Al Queda.   This violation of the cease-fire agreement terms [among many others] effectively re-authorizes the hostilities between Saddam’s Iraq and the world).
• 9/1/93 [Fall 1993] “The Iraqis organized the heavy weapons, mainly the dual-use 23mm guns and RPG-7s, which were used primarily against the U.S. helicopters. The Iraqis were also instrumental in running the external perimeter, blocking repeated U.S.-U.N. attempts to relieve the beseiged force in the defensive perimeter. The Arab “Afghans” were in command of some of the Somali blocking forces as well. Reports conflict as to the extent of Iraqi participation in the actual fighting. A few [Iraqi] Saiqah Commando troops were definately present, giving instructions to [Somali] SIUP fighters.”  (note: this violation of the cease-fire agreement terms [among many others] effectively re-authorizes the hostilities between Saddam’s Iraq and the world. 
• 9/1/93 By the Fall of 1993, a large number of Iraqis moved into the area of the Red Sea mountain range — in Madabay in Khawr Ashraf, Port Sudan, in the region of Dalawat on the Red Sea near Hala’ib, and the city of Tawker in region of Karnakanat. The Iraqis brought into these installations high-tech equipment and computers, missiles, defense systems, anti-aircraft systems and radar systems. (note: this violation of the cease-fire agreement terms [among many others] effectively re-authorizes the hostilities between Saddam’s Iraq and the world. 
• 9/1/97 Iraq blocks UNSC access to presidential site (note: this violation of the cease-fire agreement terms [among many others] effectively re-authorizes the hostilities between Saddam’s Iraq and the world. 
• 9/1/01 British authorities later released a document indicating, among other things, that Bin Laden had warned around this time that he was about to launch a major attack on America. The British document, based on telephone intercepts and information gleaned from interrogations in Europe since the attacks in New York and Washington, reveals that orders were sent to a number of the network’s key operatives to return to Afghanistan by September 10.
• 9/1/01 September 1, 2001—ATTA goes to the American Airlines ticket counter at LaGuardia Airport in New York and purchases a ticket for an American Eagle flight from New York to Portland, ME that day. He also pays $1300 cash for an advance ticket for a one-way flight from Boston to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11th. When asked if he is coming back, says “No.” See Hijack Boss was in NY

Ok, he (or any President) can wreck an economy, but what about foreign policy? Will he end the war in Iraq? Newsflash: it’s ending, and it’s ending because President Bush did something at the constant nagging of Senator McCain. Now, whether it’s Bush, or McCain, or Obama…the DNC 2008 platform makes it perfectly clear that all three have the same policy in Iraq: continue the withdrawal of US forces slowly. Bush just agreed with the Iraqis to pull US forces from Iraqi cities by June30, 2009. McCain is broader and more realistic in that he wants US forces out as soon as possible, but it depends on the conditions on the ground-not on some calender date set for a politician to beat his chest and claim that THEY somehow won the war in Iraq. Obama had said he wanted to pull out 2 combat brigades a month, but…apparently he had no idea what it takes to move a combat brigade (or maybe even what one is), and when thousands of Generals in the Pentagon and retired said that such a move was as realistic as making an aircraft carrier fly….well, he changed that to 1-2 combat brigades a month “depending on conditions on the ground”(ie, McCain’s policy since 2005). In the end, if some politician tells you that HE will be The One to end the war in Iraq….he’s kissing your ass and hoping your ignorant because the war is ending, and everyone has the same idea on how to get US troops out. Sometimes they like to tell us that “John McCain wants to keep the war in Iraq going for 100yrs!”, but when they tell you that, they’re liars, and they’re not only assuming your ignorance on the fact, but expecting you to be stupid because it’s not at all what John McCain said. What he really said was that it doesn’t matter how long US forces are in Iraq-they could be there for 10yrs like in Kosovo, or 60 yrs like in Japan, Italy, and Germany, or they could be all out in a year or so, and the reason it doesn’t matter is because what DOES matter is the casualties. If there’s no casualties in Kosovo, Italy, Germany, Japan, or Iraq….then who cares how long those troops are there? Historically, the longer they’ve been in a country, the better ally that country has been, and the more the people of that country have respected the American people.

Afghanistan. Senator Obama loves to tell us that America “took its eye off the ball” and invaded Iraq instead of getting Osama Bin Laden, but the problem is that Osama and Al Queda left Afghanistan in Nov/Dec 2001, and Iraq wasn’t invaded until almost 2 yrs later. Heck, the prep work to invade Iraq didn’t even start until 9 months after Bin Laden and AQ escaped Afghanistan, and when a politician tells you that somehow invading Iraq took forces from Afghanistan…they’re lying. NATO forces came into Afghanistan, so US forces left (had they stayed, politicians would have claimed that the other members of the Coalition of nations fighting in Afghanistan were all small contributors-that’s the line they gave on Iraq). But what will President Obama CHANGE? Despite the intrinsic faux-anti-war sentiment in the Democratic Party base, he’s gonna send as many troops as he can to Afghanistan (ignoring his base, and in direct contradictin to his claims that the US military is overextended and about to break-a claim he’s been making for 3 yrs now). Will more troops help in Afghanista? Sure, but what’s needed there more is reconstruction people, low level diplomats to deal with tribal leaders and village elders, and money. Senator Obama has no plans to send any of those. Just more troops (ie the same strategy that worked so well for the Russians in Afghanistan).

The Russians eh? What’s Senator Obama going to do differently with Russia-especially since they invaded Georgia and are threatening to attack Poland? Well, the DNC platform says they’d follow the same policy as President Bush: back Georgia w rhetoric, and nothing else. Since the invasion, Sen. Obama called on the UN, the UNSC, the EU, NATO, and every other diplomatic collage of coaltions to denounce the invasion. None of that worked. Seems that somehow talk is cheap on a battlefield where the attacker knows completely that no one has the courage to actually take an iota of action towards stopping them.

Iran? Well, Senator Obama plans to CHANGE the way the US deals with Iran’s nuclear program. He wants to get the EU, UN, UNSC, IAEA, NATO, and other countries to present Iran with tougher diplomatic rhetoric (a policy that’s been tried and failed since the Iranian program began during the Clinton years). That kind of tactic didn’t work with Russia, but he thinks it will with a nation that backs suicide bombers, and has 40,000 English-speaking volunteers already signed up to be suicide bombers inside the United States. Sen. Obama also thinks it’d be good to talk to the Iranians. President Bush’s admin tried that, and it didn’t work. In fact, the Iranians LAUGHED at the meeting for all the press corps and world to see. That leaves HOPE and airstrikes as the last options to prevent Iran from making nuclear bomb factories then handing out nukes for suicide bombers to use in Israel, Iraq, inside the US or anywhere. He hasn’t ruled out HOPE, but…..he hasn’t ruled out airstrikes yet either (the same exact policy as President Bush’s past 8yrs and Sen McCain’s-though Sen McCain could actually fly the airstrikes himself).

How about getting Osama Bin Laden? how will that CHANGE w President Obama? Well, President Bush has tried covert operations and airsitrkes in Paksistan w Pakistani permission for the past seven years. That tactic doesn’t work. Sen Obama has said if he has intelligence like what President Bush has had, he’ll unilaterally invade the nuclear-armed Pakistan just to get the one tall Arab guy who has lost most of his power. It’s an ironic CHANGE given the faux-anti-war base of his party, but it appears that President Obama sees getting Osama Bin Laden as more important that starting a nuclear war with a country of 300million people that has nukes.

Ok, what does CHANGE mean?
Same Iraq policy as President Bush
Same Iran policy as President Bush
Same Russia policy as President Bush
A more warmonger-like policy for getting Osama Bin Laden than President Bush
and
he wants to tax the wealthiest Americans who also happen to the be the employers of most Americans (cuious, will that spur pay raises from people who are getting taxed more? Will the increase in their tax bill inspire wealthy employers to hire more people?)

CHANGE

It’s just a word on a podium, but-to quote Sen Obama, “Words DO matter.” In the case of CHANGE, there is more to it than just a word. There’s an expectation that you (not Democrats or Republicans or indpendents, but AMERICANS) will be too politically apathetic to ask, “What’s he gonna CHANGE?” It’s an expectation that you’re either gullible or lack the courage to ask, “If all politicians spin, distort, mislead, and lie….then how is this man distorting, misleading, and/or lying to me” Or are you gullible enough to believe he’s not?

Senator McCain, however, saw this coming, and has led the pack in calls for international diplomacy, condemnation, and resolve. He’s sent his friends as envoys to the American ally, and he’s been monitoring the situation closely.

Who will pick up the phone? That’s irrelevant because John McCain was already on it-even at 3am.

….Um, anyone from the RNC looking for an ad writer the answer is YES, I am available.

“The border has been along this river for 1,000 years,” separatist official Ruslan Kishmaria told AP on Wednesday. He said Georgia would have to accept the new border and taunted the departed Georgian forces by saying they had received “American training in running away.”

article: Abkhazian fighters plant flag inside Georgia

question: Does this mean that “redeployment” is not a deterrent to invasion and other forms of Aggression?