What Churchill Can Still Teach Us

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 What Churchill Can Still Teach Us
Posted By Aaron Kliegman On January 30, 2019 @ 4:01 pm

Exactly 54 years ago to the day, an estimated 350 million people turned on their televisions to watch a funeral service. Thousands more, including dignitaries from an astounding 112 countries, gathered inside St. Paul's Cathedral in London to witness it firsthand. Few men in history could draw such a crowd. But Winston Churchill was no ordinary man.

Churchill's life was unquestionably remarkable. He came to hold supreme command in his country's darkest hour, achieving victory in a war of national survival. The stakes could not be higher: Churchill did nothing less than save Western civilization from the purest form of evil ever to manifest. As Churchill became prime minister in 1940, the entire political establishment wanted to cut a deal with Hitler, fearing the Nazi juggernaut. The move seemed rational—surely Hitler would have accepted reasonable terms. Of course Hitler could not be trusted, and a peace deal would have failed. More concretely, a truce would have allowed the Nazis to focus all of their energies on defeating the Soviet Union, taking away the coming challenges of a two-front war. Even if America discarded the shackles of its self-imposed isolationism to confront Germany in such a scenario, it would have been far more difficult—and perhaps impossible—without the British.


URL to article: https://freebeacon.com/blog/what-churchill-can-still-teach-us/

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From the article:
Churchill would not yield an inch when it came to his ultimate goal: unconditional surrender of the enemy, "no matter the personal cost or occasional humiliation," as Lewis Lehrman writes in his recent book on the prime minister and Abraham Lincoln. "You ask what is our aim?" Churchill said after taking office in May 1940. "I can answer in one word: it is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." Churchill defined his existential war as one of good against evil, freedom against oppression—a conflict in which Germany's unconditional surrender was the only option.

As true today with the enemy that we (and much of the rest of Western Civilization) face now.

Churchill's words provide the only pathway forward from our current dilemma.