Revive this thread whenever you see a right winger (or anyone else) invoke old NC's name to tell us that we are FORGETTING HISTORY by not treating every situation as though it's the brink of WWII.
My current fave:
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/405/
Jan. 3, 2009
The $40,420 the Manteca Redevelopment Agency is spending on trying to get a consensus in downtown to form a district where business and property owners agree to tax themselves for the common good is going to go nowhere.
The facilitator being hired for the bucks — Kristin Lowell — has about as much a chance of succeeding as Neville Chamberlain’s efforts to stop World War II.
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/31/hamas-terrorism-peace-oped-cx_cr_0101rosett.html
Israel's Future Could Be the Future For Us All by Claudia Rossett
Jan. 1, 2009
Just over 70 years ago, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich to declare that the settlement giving Germany its desired lebensraum in the Sudetenland was a "prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace"--or, in Chamberlain's most famous phrase of that day, "peace for our time."
And so, as any schoolchild knows, Nazi Germany's voracious and depraved appetites were satisfied. Hitler stuck to his deal, kept his mitts off Britain and beefed up the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact into a free-trade agreement with Stalin's Soviet Union. With the help of multilateral aid workers, psycho-social counselors and a few additional rounds of peace talks, the Third Reich was peacefully integrated into what is today the European Community.
…Sorry, wrong universe. But it does seem to be the one that most of today's erstwhile leaders of the free world believe they inhabit--forgetting the courage and immense sacrifice it took in the 1940s to redeem the blindness and colossal mistakes that were supposed to produce "peace for our time."
― President Keyes, Saturday, 3 January 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)
four years pass...