The Natural Order of Things

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American casualty rates for September are less than what they were the last few months. Attacks on infrastructure (including oil facilities) and civilians are down as well. Combat operations along the Syrian border, and throughout the Sunni Towns of central Iraq have made it much more difficult for terrorist groups to operate. There is still much support for terrorists among the Sunni Arab population, and many Sunni Arabs believe that, if the Coalition troops can be forced to leave, the Sunni Arab tribes can somehow subdue the Kurds and Shia Arabs, and regain control of the country. But the best opportunity for this was lost when the Sunni Arab dominated army and civil service was disbanded after the 2003 invasion. The army and civil service are now thoroughly Kurdish and Shia Arab, and this annoys the Sunni Arabs a great deal. But the Sunni Arabs have been in charge for so long (centuries, even under three centuries of Turkish domination), that they see it as their right to rule. Many other Sunni Arabs in the region, and many Europeans as well, agree.

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WOW! Here is the last paragraph. It is really a stong article.

Most Europeans looked the other way and changed the subject while the nazis and communists slaughtered tens of millions. So what’s a few million more Arabs? It’s a European tradition. Old habits are hard to break. Better to tolerate tyrants than to try and change the natural order of things.
 
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WOW! Here is the last paragraph. It is really a stong article.

Most Europeans looked the other way and changed the subject while the nazis and communists slaughtered tens of millions. So what’s a few million more Arabs? It’s a European tradition. Old habits are hard to break. Better to tolerate tyrants than to try and change the natural order of things.
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How did the Europeans look the other way while they themselves were the ones being massacred? This is simply ludicrous, millions of Europeans did indeed die. While one would not belittle the three hundred thousand or so US casualties in Asia and Europe 1941-1945 it does not give a particular insight into suffering and sacrifice the Europeans somehow missed out on while their continent was fought over.

“Better to tolerate tyrants” indeed. This does rather insult the memory of so many Europeans who in their various ways suffered and died rather than bend the knee to tyranny in a war that started several years before the USA got involved. Better tolerate an invasion of Poland than get involved with Europe perhaps?
 
Chamberlain’s appeasement immediately comes to mind. better leave Poles/Czechs to fight nazies themselves than to get UK involved
 
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Chamberlain’s appeasement immediately comes to mind. better leave Poles/Czechs to fight nazies themselves than to get UK involved
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Actually the UK went to war over the invasion of Poland. Certainly it was criminal to betray the Czech’s over the Sudetenland.
 
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Actually the UK went to war over the invasion of Poland. Certainly it was criminal to betray the Czech’s over the Sudetenland.
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Following the collapse of Poland is the Phony War when Hitler were still left unchecked
 
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