Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister Winston Churchill.
The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. Both warned the world of mortal dangers that others ignored, in hopes that those dangers would go away.......Despite Churchill's legendary status today, he was not merely ignored but ridiculed at the time, when he was repeatedly warning in vain. Knowing that his warnings provoked only mocking laughter in some quarters, even among some members of his own party......How did things get to such a desperate situation....Things got that desperate by following policies strikingly similar to the policies being followed by the Western democracies today, including some of the very same notions and catchwords being used today.......
Just recently, a State Department official in the Obama administration said that Americans have remained safe in a nuclear age, not because of our own nuclear arsenal but because "we created an intricate and essential system of treaties, laws and agreements."......
"Not one of the lessons of the past has been learned, not one of them has been applied, and the situation is incomparably more dangerous," Churchill said in 1934. And every one of those words is more urgently true today, in a nuclear age......To Read More.....
My Take - It's unfortunate most of the nation's citizenry won't read this article, and it's even more unfortuante so many people are so historically ignorant they don't have a clue about what he's talking about. Just take some time today and ask who was Winston Chruchill, Neville Chamberlain and Vidkun Quisling. I will guarantee you that a substantial number won't know any of them and no one will know who Quisling was.
It's a good thing Hollywood made so many movies about WWII otherwise I'm not sure how many people under the age of 50 would have known there even was a WWII, because they're clearly not getting that information from the American education system. Almost 50% don't know that WWII was fought against Germany, Japan and Italy, and over 80% don't know that Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States during WWI.
I would love to know how many would even know there was a WWI if there wasn't a WWII. After all, two follows one ya know!
Is this a warning of a failed education system? Yes and no! It depends on what the goal of that system was, and it in this case American education was a smashing success. They're all amazingly ignorant of history, the goal of all leftists because history is so destructive to their narratives.
If actually learning history was the goal - well - American education is an abject failure. England isn't any better. A few years ago a study found that 45% of all British students thought Winston Churchill was an astronaut.
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