ncc74656's Journal: The more things change...

...the more they stay the same:

Senator Stone knows very well that the President is not going "to plunge this nation into the vortex of this 'world war.'" The Democrats in Congress who are hostile to the President have raised that cry for their own purposes. It may be said with all confidence that Germany has no desire to add the United States to her already formidable array of enemies. We are not likely to have any more serious trouble with Germany than that which has been brought upon us through the influence of her propagandists and her sympathizers in the American Congress.

That was from an editorial in the al-Qaeda Intelligence Service, if you can believe that. The date?

26 February 1916.

I think I've brought up the Copperheads in previous JEs, so you can see that this pattern goes back even further.

In the Late '40's

[RailGunner]

In the late 1940's, Life Magazine whined that we "lost the peace" while still hunting down Nazi remnants in Germany...

Re:

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Re:this was the logic behind my opposition to the

[Marxist Hacker 42]

We know the Western public is weak. It will be our downfall eventually, but for the present let us take it as a given that the Western public has no stomach for war. It is laden with traitors who are ripe for the culling.

Thus any modern leader who uses warfare should:
1. do so quickly, with an easily discernable victory point.
2. Be courageous enough to use genocide if it clears the land for fresh colonization.

Any other form of preemptive warfare is bound to fail due to EXACTLY this factor.

Why are you relying on a convicted junkie's word?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I'd have to see the actual articles from 1916- but remember, that was two years *BEFORE* we got involved in WWI, and some isolationists like myself would like us to have never participated in that war, this war, or any other war or trade outside the borders of the United States of America. Within our states, territories, and protectorates; we have access to everything we actually *NEED*, even if we don't have everything we *WANT*- so there's no NEED for anything other than a strong border defense with the