The Big Question

As early as 1932, Winston Churchill said: "France, though armed to the teeth, is pacifist to the core"

writes Thomas Sowell in his column regarding "moral paralysis" and "what is still the magic mantra today — 'negotiations'."

History may be interesting but it is the present and the future that pose the crucial question: Is America today the France of yesterday?

…Not only the history of the UN, but the history of the League of Nations before it, demonstrates again and again that going to such places is a way for weak-kneed leaders of democracies to look like they are doing something when in fact they are doing nothing.

…Incidentally, Hitler made some of the best anti-war statements of the 1930s. He knew that this was what the Western democracies wanted to hear -- and that it would keep them morally paralyzed while he continued building up his military machine to attack them.

…the big question is: Are we France? Are we morally paralyzed, perhaps fatally?