“When an empire dies, it dies like a cloudy day, without a visible moment of sunset. The demise is not announced on the radio, nor does one read of it in the morning paper. The British Empire had fatally depleted itself in the great, if laggard repulse of Hitler, and the British people had long since willed the end of the Empire, by electing pacifist leaders to gut the military budgets. Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.”(Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance).
President Roosevelt, prior to our entering WWII, proved the necessity of dictatorial powers to combat the dictatorial regimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. He did this, without depleting our resources, by aiding our proxies (England, Russia, France), thus saving the world and establishing the American Empire.
Today, we are depleting our resources supporting a 3-front war via our current proxies (Ukraine, Israel, SKO) as wars rage on every populated continent and battles loom under-the-sea, in space and on the moon; It might take a dictator to lead us again. Do we want a Chamberlin-type appeasement leader or a confrontational FDR style Commander-in-Chief? Is the sun shining or is it getting cloudy?
Chuck Klein, Columnist, is the author of many books, columns, articles, and stories. Details and contact:https://chuckkleinauthor.com
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