(Posted on this blog on October 20, 2008.)
Floor Churchill again. After the previous post where I show pessimistic about the next election in the United States, I remembered Churchill's speech in Parliament in 1940, when Hitler had just conquered France.
The parallel is certainly not productive, to say the least. Just to set, needing a breath of optimism, will and hope, even if Churchill himself when I say "do not offer but blood, tears and sweat", turned to his colleagues around him and whispered: " And surely fight the Germans throwing empty beer bottles. "
Churchill said then:
"What General Weygand Called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. On this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
If we can stand up to him all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad sunlit uplands; but if we fail, the whole world, including the United States and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of a perverted science".
Y hoy tambien esta en peligro la supervivencia de la civilizacion cristiana, aunque el peligro no sea el que Barack Obama salga electo.
Note now he was elected, of course, I was pessimistic, of course, and I am happy, if I may, in the metaphor used for Churchill, stated that even if the danger was not just that Obama out-elect: he was right: as times change, Venancio, what you think. Today, November 2nd, we are about to be defeated in the mid-term elections. Looking forward to it!
The Messiah lasted less than a meringue in the school door.
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