“Churchill was convinced that mankind could destroy all the evils, from poverty to mutual destruction. In every sphere of human endeavour, he foresaw the dangers and potential for evil. Many of those dangers are our dangers today. He also pointed the way forward to our solutions for tomorrow. That is why his life is worthy of our attention, for he was a man of quality: a good guide for our troubled decade and for the generations now reaching adulthood.” —Sir Martin Gilbert The post Refl...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Charles Krauthammer, sage as ever, cautioned against comparing modern situations like Syria (we might now add Ukraine or Gaza) to the Second World War: “There is a difference of scale…. The Second World War was an existential struggle where the future of civilization was in the balance. It could be that Syria, or these other trouble spots, will develop into a World War-like conflict. But that is fairly unlikely right now. It is not a conflict in which the existence of ways of life is at s...| Richard M. Langworth