James S
Flashlight Enthusiast
Some quotes from the article for you:
"The taste of victory has gone sour in the mouth of every thinking American I know."
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
"We've lost the peace... we can't make it stick."
"Friend and foe alike look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly disappointed they are in you as an American."
"Never has American prestige in Europe been lower."
"...instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction, we came in full of evasions and apologies."
"All we have brought... so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts."
"The time has come for our own future security to give the best we have to the world instead of the worst."
Sounds pretty typical of what you read in the press about Iraq doesn't it. So there must be a twist or I wouldn't have posted it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif The thing is that this is from an article written in Life magazine in January of 1946! This is 5 months after the official end of WWII.
This wonderful historical article was brought to my attention by Steven DenBeste who goes on to say that:
"One lesson from this is that it is premature to judge success or failure when you're only a few months into a multi-year process, but that someone's always going to try. But another lesson is that biased anti-American reporting is nothing new."
What do you all think about that?
"The taste of victory has gone sour in the mouth of every thinking American I know."
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
"We've lost the peace... we can't make it stick."
"Friend and foe alike look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly disappointed they are in you as an American."
"Never has American prestige in Europe been lower."
"...instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction, we came in full of evasions and apologies."
"All we have brought... so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts."
"The time has come for our own future security to give the best we have to the world instead of the worst."
Sounds pretty typical of what you read in the press about Iraq doesn't it. So there must be a twist or I wouldn't have posted it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif The thing is that this is from an article written in Life magazine in January of 1946! This is 5 months after the official end of WWII.
This wonderful historical article was brought to my attention by Steven DenBeste who goes on to say that:
"One lesson from this is that it is premature to judge success or failure when you're only a few months into a multi-year process, but that someone's always going to try. But another lesson is that biased anti-American reporting is nothing new."
What do you all think about that?