May 16, 2011

In a May 10th piece on the American Thinker website, author Robert Morrison asserts that a) President Obama is no Churchill; b) Hitler, who in 1940 was ready “to parachute 10,000 commandos on London,” was rather scarier than Osama bin Laden; c) Obama, who dislikes Churchill for the torture of his grandfather in Kenya, “tossed” the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office; and d) just last week, “spilt his guts” on the media about the Bin Laden assassination.

Quoting Churchill’s famous remark that when he became Prime Minister he felt as if he “were walking with destiny,” Morrison writes: “I want my president to have concerns, but not fears. I don’t want him to go on television and kvetch. I want my president to walk with destiny.” Among the comments to this article is one asserting that Churchill and President Wilson “orchestrated a plan” to get America into World War I by sinking the liner Lusitania.

Dear oh dear…..

For writers to offer comparisons of today’s politicians with Winston Churchill is remindful of what Churchill said (drawing laughs) to the U.S. Congress in 1941, just after the Japanese had attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor: “They have certainly embarked upon a very considerable undertaking.”

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“Kvetching” and the current incumbent aside, you simply don’t parachute 10,000 commandos on a city, a feat beyond even Hitler’s Luftwaffe. Also, Obama’s grandfather was released in Kenya before Churchill returned to power in 1951. And Churchill actually expressed sympathy toward the Kenyan rebels. The details are here.

It’s been acknowledged for years that during World War I the British were shipping arms on passenger liners; but the big lie was that Churchill and Wilson purposely set up RMS Lusitania to be torpedoed by withdrawing a supposed naval escort and/or ordering a course that magically put the ship in the crosshairs of the U-20. Apparently we’re supposed to believe they knew where all the U-boats were, too.

The Lusitania nonsense was refuted years ago by Professor Harry Jaffa in the book Statesmanship, in a detailed article which we can email to anyone interested.

Richard M. Langworth, Editor, Finest Hour, [email protected]