Victor Hanson has written a good piece about how our press would have portrayed World War II if the current media and political elites had been sent to that age.
I'll excerpt just one paragraph:
Remember as well that these clandestine transgressions of this administration follow a long record of constitutional disrespect—whether trying to pack the Supreme Court with compliant justices, unilaterally turning over our destroyers to the United Kingdom, or, well before Pearl Harbor, ordering, by fiat, attacks on the high seas against German submarines. Such abuses of presidential authority, characterized by intrigue with British agents and unauthorized spying on foreign nationals, go a long way in explaining the German decision to declare war against us on December 8, 1941, presenting the United States with the present catastrophe of a two-front conflict.
I dare say the end result would have been the same as in the MAD piece. Well, not the German part, but you know what I mean.
We must wage war with the press and loyal opposition that we have and not the press and loyal opposition that we wish we had. Just be grateful we didn't have to fight World War II with the press and loyal opposition we have today.
Read it all.
I'd sink into despair over our current culture that undermines our war efforts, but that would be a luxury we who support the war can ill afford to indulge in while our troops dutifully win the war that many in our country would just as soon lose.
Reizende Dekade haben wir , eh?
