A Must Read

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There is great truth in this "what if" column by the hyper-astute Victor Davis Hanson.

It chills one to the very bone to imagine what could have been... please read it.

[[ I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, and George Marshall conducted the Second World War brilliantly, despite “thousands of mistakes.” But I can also envision how our present intelligentsia and punditocracy would have sized up their sometimes less than perfect efforts or applied their own reporting to the struggle against Japan and Germany. So imagine something like the following op-ed appearing, say, around May 1, 1945. ]]

Professor Hanson's history makeover begins thusly:

[[ May 21, 1945—After the debacles of February and March at Iwo Jima, and now the ongoing quagmire on Okinawa, we are asked to accept recent losses that are reaching 20,000 dead brave American soldiers and yet another 50,000 wounded in these near criminally incompetent campaigns euphemistically dubbed “island hopping.” ]]

It goes on...

In The Eye Of The Beholder

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