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To: carranza2 who wrote (176527)	8/14/2006 12:01:17 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793568

I see too many historically repeating patterns. I hope they are figments of my imagination but I doubt it. The war we forgot to fight By SAUL SINGER [Recent columns] Here is my grand unified theory of the history of the universe: # democracies show weakness; # dictators are emboldened and attack; # democracies respond slowly, insufficiently, or appease; # dictators are further emboldened and attack harder; # war; # democracies win; # start over again... This is not original stuff. Alexis de Tocqueville knew it in 1835. Winston Churchill said as much in 1933. This pattern played out most dramatically when, just a few years after the "war to end all wars" - World War I - exhausted free nations appeased Germany, leading to World War II and the Holocaust. In the Cold War cycle of this pattern, we were spared the full force of a potential World War III because the wars were fought on a proxy level (Vietnam, Afghanistan), and eventually the Soviet Union imploded. Now we are in World War IV, as Norman Podhoretz has pointed out, between what Tony Blair aptly calls Reactionary Islam and the rest of us. The first striking thing about this war is that we've managed to fall asleep at a relatively late stage of it. REST AT: jpost.com