tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post5158025425509389168..comments2023-06-29T13:25:30.567+02:00Comments on The Editrix' Roncesvalles: Obama: Historical RevisionistThe_Editrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-13357107381221891722009-05-10T11:51:00.000+02:002009-05-10T11:51:00.000+02:00It does, doesn't it?
I think it is part of the hu...It does, doesn't it?<br /><br />I think it is part of the human nature to shun one's own guilt, but it's so preposterous in the German case. I am sick and tired of that archetypically German trait never to accept responsibility. <br /><br />I don't know quite HOW many times I have quoted the following by Herman Wouk (including at the forum where we first met). It is from "The Winds of War" and stunning in its astuteness. Wouk lets his protagonist Vicor Henry say: <I>"Roon [a fictitious character] starts on his first page, for instance, exactly as Adolf Hitler started all his speeches: by denouncing the Versailles Treaty as an injustice imposed on an honourable and trusting Germany by the cruel Allies. He does not mention the historical catch to that. German writers seldom do. In 1917 Lenin overthrew the Kerensky government and sued for a separate peace on the eastern front. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by the Germans over a year before the Treaty of Versailles, deprived Russia of a territory much larger than France and England combined, of almost sixty million inhabitants, and of almost all her heavy industry. It was far harsher than the Versailles Treaty.<br /><br />I used to bring up this little fact during my Berlin service, whenever Versailles was mentioned. My German friends were invariably puzzled by the comparison. They thought it made no sense at all. The Treaty of Versailles had happened to <STRONG> them</STRONG>; Brest-Litovsk had happened to the other fellow. In this reaction they were sincere. I cannot explain this national quirk of the Germans ..."</I>Perversely, after WWII and the Holocaust, this has become worse. Germans define themselves by a staple of anti-American hatred, which I once cynically described as not forgiving them to have freed us and keeping them from finishing <A HREF="http://editrixblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/run-for-hils-from-altruism.html" REL="nofollow">the great patriotic deed</A>. It permeates all classes and political hues and its logical outcome is the history revisionism we are watching.<br /><br />Nothing like Obama's steps in the direction Grant has outlined is a better proof of how anti-American that man is.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-35283252057019256582009-05-10T06:10:00.000+02:002009-05-10T06:10:00.000+02:00This ties in very nicely with what we were discuss...This ties in very nicely with what we were discussing under "May 8 1945"<br /><br />Obama's pastor of 20 some years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a liberation theologian and America hater boldly proclaimed from the pulpit "Not God bless America, no, no, no. God damn America". He also announced with the voice of a prophet that 9/11 was "America's chickens coming home to roost" for dropping atomic bombs on Japan and other assorted ills. The left in America and Europe cheered and wholeheartedly endorsed Rev. Wrights pronouncements. Mr. Obama's apology tour in Europe and Turkey demonstrates he agrees with this position in principle. But he is a shrewd enough politician to back away from overtly supporting Wright's strident vocal ism. <br /><br />Okay so now Germany and Japan are the victims. The leftist feel like the USA finally got payback it deserved. So let's apply the same logic to Germany. I would say that Dresden was simply "Germany's chickens coming home to roost" for Rotterdam, Warsaw, Leningrad, Stalingrad, the blitz of London and the extermination of Jozefow and hundreds of other villages and towns like it across Europe. <br /><br />Now Japan. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were simply the "chickens coming home to roost" for Manchuria, the rape of Nanking and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Korean women into prostitution. Let's throw the Bataan death march in for grins. <br /><br />People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. But we are well on our way to forgetting that. I now sincerely believe that the USA is declining as an economic and military power (and not just because of Obama though he is part of the mix) <br /><br />A New World Order is emerging but there is really nothing "new" under the sun. Ever. Everyone is forgetting the lessons of World War II. At the end of the day, I predict that we'll be able to sing along with the Who "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."Alligatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764752508206031685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-42653352746511264842009-05-10T00:02:00.000+02:002009-05-10T00:02:00.000+02:00Thank YOU. IBA has grown a bit big, colourful and ...Thank YOU. IBA has grown a bit big, colourful and thus difficult to manage and survey. I have totally overlooked both, you and your blog. I promise to catch up though.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-18826338447576350502009-05-09T22:22:00.000+02:002009-05-09T22:22:00.000+02:00Thanks for reposting this, and keep up the good fi...Thanks for reposting this, and keep up the good fight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com