"FACE" wrote in message
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> Hi Stan, pardon me for jumping in but:
> The Western world is trying to use appeasement. It is failing, it has
> failed, it will fail..............
>
> I was just reading this by John Derbyshire and it seems to apply as to the
> failures of the will:
>
> "Here, though, you come to another equation in the calculus of
> appeasement.
> Is the United States willing to fight this war the way it needs fighting,
> with grim ferocity and cold unconcern for legalistic niceties? To lay
> waste
> great territories and their peoples, innocent and guilty alike, to level
> cities, to burn forests and divert rivers, to smite our enemies hip and
> thigh, to carry out summary execution of captured leaders? Of course not!
> how barbaric! And yet (whispers the ancestral, tribal voice in our heads,
> and in British heads too) if not, then what's the point? War is a tribal
> affair, one tribe exterminating another, or reducing it to utter impotence
> and ignominious surrender. That's what war is, and it isn't anything else.
> We know this in our bones, from a million years of tribal living and
> fighting. If we are not willing to fight a war like that -- which
> apparently
> we are not, being much too civilized -- then we should not be too
> surprised
> if our allies turn and cut deals with our enemies. At least they'll have a
> quiet life, for a while."
>
> Now that was written on July 8th, 2005, so you can imagine he was a wee
> bit
> angry that day and would probably deny this today..........
>
I doubt Derbyshire would think any differently today. Keep reading him, he
will keep you sane. He must be the last educated Englishman to escape from
WogEngland. There are not many left. Roger Scruton perhaps.
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