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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Burt Prelutsky :: Townhall.com Columnist
Sandbox sermons
by Burt Prelutsky
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Was the Copenhagen Global Warming Summit Walk-Out a Win for the U.S.?


To all of them, I pose a single question: If Hitler hadn't invaded other countries, should the world have given him carte blanche to do whatever he wished in Germany? 

Turning the clock back seventy years, would the same people who blithely equate Bush with Hitler have argued against allied intervention so long as he only tortured and gassed Jews, gays, Gypsies, Catholics, Socialists, dissidents, and the infirm, who were unfortunate enough to be German?

It seems so obvious to me that it is not merely weapons of mass destruction that should inflame our sense of injustice, it is also evil of massive proportion.

The morally vapid will continue to put their misguided faith in an organization as toothless and craven as the U.N., just as their equally naive grandparents put theirs in the League of Nations. 

Someone once said that a camel was a horse put together by a committee. In similar fashion, the specialty of world peace organizations is to make grand pronouncements of irresolute resolutions. Whether it was dealing with Italy, Germany, and Japan, in the 1930s or Iraq, North Korea, and Islamic terrorists today, the professional peacemakers can always be counted on to shake a stern finger, go "tsk-tsk," and then call for a time-out.

There's nothing very complicated about dealing with the Saddam Husseins of the world. And once again, you can find the appropriate response in the sandboxes of our land. For every third grader in America knows that schoolyard bullies never stop bullying until some kid with a bit of gumption gets fed up at long last and punches the little brat in the nose.

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W. Burt Prelutsky is an accomplished, well-rounded writer and author of "The Secret of Their Success: Interviews with Legends and Luminaries."
 
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