Friday, October 27, 2006
Peace Movements - by Thomas Sowell
This IS about the Middle East; however, these paragraphs caught my eye...
At TownHall.com, Thomas Sowell discusses peace movements and some history:
"One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts."
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"The most catastrophic result of "peace" movements was World War II. While Hitler was arming Germany to the teeth, "peace" movements in Britain were advocating that their own country disarm "as an example to others."
"British Labor Party Members of Parliament voted consistently against military spending and British college students publicly pledged never to fight for their country. If "peace" movements brought peace, there would never have been World War II."
