I am just about sick of Thomas Sowell stealing all my good ideas before I think of them. Seriously, I had a great historical comparison with all the peace-above-all idiots and Sherman's march through Atlanta. I was going to say how cruel it would have been if Sherman would have stopped after burning Atlanta to the ground. Could you imagine what the South would have been like if the rebellion wasn't brought totally under heel by continuing on through Southern Georgia and onto the end of the war.

Sowell actually carries that thought way further (as he always does in his masterful way) and states outright that peace movements always lead to more war. Consider the words of Master Sowell:

The most catastrophic result of "peace" movements was World War II. While Adolf Hitler was arming Germany to the teeth, "peace" movements in Britain were advocating that their own country disarm "as an example to others."

British Labor Party members of Parliament voted consistently against military spending and British college students publicly pledged never to fight for their country. If "peace" movements brought peace, there would never have been World War II.

Not only did that war lead to tens of millions of deaths, it came dangerously close to a crushing victory for the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese empire in Asia. And we now know that the United States was on Hitler’s timetable after that.

For the first two years of that war, the Western democracies lost virtually every battle, all over the world, because prewar "peace" movements had left them with inadequate military equipment and much of it obsolete. The Nazis and the Japanese knew that. That is why they launched the war.

"Peace" movements don’t bring peace; they bring war.

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