Anyone know what this is from? "Even today we could face without apprehension an emergency either in the Far East or the Mediterranean, provided that we were free...to concentrate sufficient strength in one or other of these areas...But the outstanding feature of the present situation is the increasing probability that a war started in any one of these three areas [the third being Western Europe] may extend to one or both of the other two...we cannot foresee the time when our defense forces will be strong enough to safeguard our territory, trade, and vital interests against Germany, Italy and Japan simultaneously. We cannot, therefore, exaggerate the importance, from the point of view of Imperial defense, of any political or international action that can be taken to reduce the numbers of our potential enemies or to gain the support of potential allies".[1] This is policy advocated by Neville Chamberlain that is commonly referred to as appeasement. Change the country names and all of sudden it looks amazingly like our current policy in the middle east. Either we change our policy back to those of Truman, Reagan and Bush 1 or we may be forced to find out if history is doomed to repeat itself.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 15:36:07 +0000
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