December 6, 2008

Celebrating a quiet victory of democracy

By Bruce Walker
Some believe that the Second World War "really" started in 1935, when the Fascists, opposed by the Nazis and virtually all the rest of the world, invaded the Christian Empire of Ethiopia, and conquered it with the aid of Moslem subjects who Mussolini was purporting to liberate under his title "Defender of Islam."  Ethiopia was ultimately "freed" from the rule of Fascists, although it is hard to conceive how this freedom was an improvement on anything.  Ethiopia remains one of the worst places in the world. The Second World War is also supposed to have "really" started with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, which was the beginning of a Japanese campaign to conquer China, rather than just occupy part of China and exert influence over all of China.  That war, the bloodiest front in all the Second World War, ultimately ended in a beastly government in China, a worse government in North Korea, and good governments in Japan and in...(Read Full Article)