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Learning from history

Sounds like another story or two that I’ve been hearing about lately.

By Col. Oliver North for FOX 

In September 1931, when the Japanese Imperial Army marched into Manchuria, the Nationalist Government of China, a signatory to the League of Nations charter, called on the international community for help.

The League arrogantly pronounced that the aggression would stop because it had taken the matter “under consideration.” Tokyo’s response to this vacillation was to seize Shanghai. The Chinese again appealed to the League of Nations. While the diplomats dithered, Tokyo renamed Manchuria, set up a puppet regime in its capital and declared that Japanese troops were staying. The League of Nations responded by censuring Tokyo and demanding the withdrawal of Japanese troops. The Japanese promptly withdrew from the League, declaring its deliberations to be “irrelevant.” World War II had begun — though it took the Europeans another seven years to understand.

(…)  On Tuesday, September 21, the president of the United States stood before the U.N. General Assembly and challenged the world body to try — once again — to be relevant in a world threatened by an evil even more dangerous than fascism: fanatical terrorism.(…)

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