LET US LEARN SOMETHING FROM HISTORY - THIS TIME! - for JUST A MINUTE RADIO Thursday 110317

Hello again on a THURSDAY –

 

Today I’m trying hard to send a message to both the President and the Dictator.  What chance do you think I have? 

 

Well, I’m using close to 100,000 ERP watts – (ERP stands for effective radiated power) – and it’s coming out of an antenna mounted close to the NC/SC state line with a prayer it’ll get to D.C. when he’s listening. (J)….but more importantly, that this message will be impressed upon his heart. Actually that’s the miracle I’m confident will get across all barriers.

 

The story was written in the Wall Street Journal in the Wednesday paper… by a well-respected young (42) historian specializing in armies and war and such. He’s a graduate of Berkley (says he thinks he’s the only conservative writer to ever graduate of that school) and also of Yale… BA from Berkley ’91; MA from Yale ’92 – written for the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard as an employee…and  other pieces for the Washington Post, and a host of other periodicals – plus lectures at the War College and other military educational gatherings… 

 

Boot’s story in the Wednesday WSJ was headlined  IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SAVE LIBYA!  (right down there below on this page].

 

So… between him being on the op-ed page of the daily paper with the largest daily circulation in the US – and me being on a 100,000 watt radio station within a day of each other with the same message… well I should say! (Cheers!)

 

In the process of getting the script ready – which you should be able to see (or hear if you’re adroit enough on the Internet) I’m sure the President will think twice before ignoring the burden of Mr. Max Boot’s message.

 

As I thought over Mr. Boot’s piece… I thought back to the middle 50’s when Stalin had taken over as much of Europe as he could grab.  In his scrabbling things up… he got Hungary and all the other countries that he pulled in behind the Iron Curtain.  But Radio Free Europe was coming over the transom – and through the walls and doors… and groups were springing up trying to resist the Communists making socialists out of ‘em without their consent. 

 

There were stirrings… and patriots… I got a real refreshing read about the whole thing from the people’s encyclopedia  Wikipedia – and it refreshed my memory. The propaganda the US and some other broadcasters were pumping toward eastern Europe was in the wake of the Russian grab of everything… and the Berlin wall and all that… so behind the iron curtain resistance was forming and serious… and Stalin died… so things got worse.

 

Finally some of the patriots began to get organized… and – well the Russians cracked down on them [you can read it all for yourselves on the Internet] and they split Budapest into two halves before the ‘rebels’ knew what was happening… 2500 people died… because no Americans… or anyone from the West came to help them throw off the shackles of Communism…. Hundreds more were imprisoned – tortured and ultimately executed for opposing the KGB and the State.

 

Why?  Because we didn’t do anything much to help them – and the same thing is happening today. We’re letting the flame of freedom die out in Libya. 

 

I know… I know we don’t need to be getting into yet another war… but it would take about 2.5 stealth fighters-jets with our kind of trained pilots…to put whatever Gadhaffi-AF there is on the ground in pieces… and he’d be off to some hideout… but unless we in the  West do something to back up our vaunted freedom we TALK about… there are going to be LOTS of Victims due to Mr. Obama’s neglect of opportunity – more graves and more weeping – that doesn’t need to be.

 

He has an opportunity to demonstrate LEADERSHIP which hasn’t been done since January of 2009 – so far – and rescue his Administration from building a reputation that will be worse than Jimmy Carter’s second term.

 

OK…OK … lemme get down easy off the soap box Lads….

 

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

LET US LEARN SOMETHING FROM HISTORY – THIS TIME!

          Just a Minute: -- Here’s a quotation I pass along to both Mr. Gadhafi and Mr. Obama: It’s a quotation which apparently originates in the Arab world:

          “Four things come not back: the spoken word; the sped arrow; time past; the neglected opportunity.”— spoken by Omar Ibn Al Harif

            Mr. Max Boot – former writer/editor at the Wall St. Journal and current contributor at the Weekly Standard, writes a long piece in yesterday’s Journal under the headline, “It’s Not Too Late to Save Libya.” Maybe so… but it’s getting more difficult hour by hour.                   The history of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets in 1956  – how it was encouraged by our shortwave broadcasts but the Eisenhower Administration held back any support resulted in 2500 Hungarian deaths many more wounded and  another 30 years behind the Iron Curtain. Eventually Mr. Gorbachev did give a Soviet apology. 

          Mr. Obama – Mr. Gadhafi -- let’s don’t go through something like that again. The time to give current and serious attention to this “neglected opportunity” is upon us.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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