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Moderation? Oh, Please!

By Jeffrey Lord on 8.10.06 @ 12:07AM

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One of the unexpected joys of vacation on Eastern Long Island is reading old books quoting old New York Times editorials. Catch this one, published in the aftermath of World War One:

"Not only is their (Germany's) military power...destroyed but the military spirit...crushed...Now...their ships have gone; their foreign trade has vanished and they are condemned to half a century of unremitting toil to repay the loss they have caused...The punishment Germany must endure for centuries will be one of the greatest deterrents to the war spirit."

For the record and particularly for Spectator readers of a certain age, in contrast to this New York Times editorial certainty neither the military spirit or power of Germany was crushed. Germany's ships were re-created. Their foreign trade thrived. Not only was Germany not condemned "to half a century of unremitting toil to repay the loss they have caused," within a mere twenty years it had an army on the march across Europe, had successfully invaded Poland, France, Holland, Belgium and more, was daily bombing England and had built concentration camps holding and quite actively preparing to kill all of the Jews in Europe (relax, they only killed six million).

So much for the wisdom of the New York Times.

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