Comments on: The Battle of the Bulge http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: beth http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-46103 beth Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:22:55 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-46103 gregdn, those who can't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Refusing to see correlations between the build up between that war and any other war, including this one if is just a choice to put on blinders. Norma, thanks for your comments. I've often thought the same thing. Those men fought and sacrificed for us to have a better world, we really need to be willing to do the same. How sad if they made our world better and we let their sacrifices be for nothing. Good points Daniel! That certainly is an important part of the lesson. I don't know of any time in history that appeasement was successful in maintaining peace. gregdn, those who can’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Refusing to see correlations between the build up between that war and any other war, including this one if is just a choice to put on blinders.

Norma, thanks for your comments. I’ve often thought the same thing. Those men fought and sacrificed for us to have a better world, we really need to be willing to do the same. How sad if they made our world better and we let their sacrifices be for nothing.

Good points Daniel! That certainly is an important part of the lesson. I don’t know of any time in history that appeasement was successful in maintaining peace.

]]> By: gregdn http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-46065 gregdn Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:28:06 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-46065 Daniel: World War Two has nothing in common with our war in Iraq. The twenty percent who still think it was a good idea to invade that country shamelessly invoke the last 'good war' for political purposes and that was my objection. Daniel:
World War Two has nothing in common with our war in Iraq. The twenty percent who still think it was a good idea to invade that country shamelessly invoke the last ‘good war’ for political purposes and that was my objection.

]]> By: Daniel http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-46055 Daniel Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:44:25 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-46055 gregdn: I understand some things should just sink in unfettered. Yet Norma is right. In addition, they may not have had to fight there at all had so many not listened to the appeaser Chamberlain after he accepted Hitler's promise to leave them alone (eat them last). It is an important part of the lesson. gregdn: I understand some things should just sink in unfettered. Yet Norma is right. In addition, they may not have had to fight there at all had so many not listened to the appeaser Chamberlain after he accepted Hitler’s promise to leave them alone (eat them last). It is an important part of the lesson.

]]> By: gregdn http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-46050 gregdn Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:21:10 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-46050 Norma: It would have been nice to just leave this tribute to the guys in the battle of the Bulge alone. Norma: It would have been nice to just leave this tribute to the guys in the battle of the Bulge alone.

]]> By: Norma http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/comment-page-1/#comment-46048 Norma Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:19:50 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2006/12/16/the-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-46048 One of the finest tributes we can pay the men and boys who lost their lives and limbs in battle then is to not drop the ball now. We came close to losing WWII, and if our leaders had listened to the war protestors and whiners then, we might have. One of the finest tributes we can pay the men and boys who lost their lives and limbs in battle then is to not drop the ball now. We came close to losing WWII, and if our leaders had listened to the war protestors and whiners then, we might have.

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