Breitbart: Today is not only Veterans Day, it is also the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, when the armistice went into effect exactly a century ago, on November 11, 1918. After more than four years of bloody fighting, the Great War was finally over.
The standard view of World War I is that it is a testament to the futility of war. Yet maybe the better way to think of the war, which lasted from 1914 to 1918—including American participation in 1917-1918—is that if war comes, it’s better to win than to lose.
So while any war is a cause for somber reflection—and world leaders, including President Trump, are gathered in France this weekend to reflect on World War I—it’s perhaps even more important to learn enduring lessons of preparedness and strength.
Most of the chronicling of that war is heavy on mournfulness, along with the implication that war solves nothing. Hence we see headlines such as “The Tragic Futility of World War I” and “The Most Unnecessary War in History.”
Still, we are left to wonder: If the war was “futile” and “unnecessary,” does that mean it would have made no difference if, for instance, the U.S. had not fought in it? Would it have been okay if the Kaiser’s Germany had won?
And for that matter, what about France? That was the country that the German Army invaded in 1914, and, following the notorious Schlieffen Plan, the Germans stormed through a neutral country, Belgium, as part of their drive toward Paris. So what should the French have done, other than defend themselves? If one says that the French could have done a better job of planning and preparing for the war, that’s certainly true. But pacifism, in the face of a conqueror, is not a good option. more here
I hope some of you got a chance to watch Fox News Pete Hegseth
“Modern Warriors” tonight. If not try and find it on YouTube. Best thing I’ve seen on FOX in a long time.
Best thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time.
WWI was so tragic for so many, it f*cked with so many minds and gave us Progressivism and European Socialism and more war.
It also produced Modernism (Art), which all sucks.
Here’s a 15 minute teaser of Modern Warriors. These guys are great.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/5860760818001/?#sp=show-clips
Gavrilo Princip was a socialist (communist branch) posing as an anarchist.
One lesson that everyone should take away from the catastrophe of the First World War is that socialism is TOXIC!
Socialism is a source of hatred, destruction, envy, pestilence, war, and death – NO good ever comes of it – and it is foolish in the extreme to think (or believe) that GOOD can be spawned from EVIL.
That is how we became saddled with the Income Tax and the Popular Election of Senators, which destroyed the power balance of the Constitution and lead to a century of the encroachment of gov’t into every aspect of our lives – from public school indoctrination to the sick fantasy of protecting the “environment.”
War really IS Hell!
izlamo delenda est …
We had zero business getting involved in WW1. We the people shouldn’t go to war just because weapons manufacturers insisted on supplying one side of a conflict thus running the risk of submarine attack.
As the the telegram, then as now, the best response to a threatened invasion from Mexico is to move the army to the Mexican border. . . not France.
If we’d stayed out chances are excellent WWII wouldn’t have happened because the treaty ending the first war would have been fairer.