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Of course war is wrong. But if permitted to continue, Hussein is likely to build nukes and give them to terrorists, who will nuke us. No one says he’s unlikely to do that. We can’t permit that to happen.
Winston S. Churchill, the grandson of Winston Churchill, wrote in the The Wall Street Journal:
My grandfather’s resolve and leadership offer a second parallel to today’s situation—one that confronted the world 55 years ago, when America was on the point of losing her monopoly of the atomic bomb. As leader of the opposition in the British parliament, Churchill was gravely alarmed at the prospect of the Soviet Union acquiring atomic, and eventually nuclear, weapons of its own. He said at the time, “What will happen when they get the atomic bomb themselves and have accumulated a large store? No one in his senses can believe that we have a limitless period of time before us.”
As President Bush and Mr. Blair intend today in the case of Iraq, Winston Churchill in 1948 favored the threat and—if need be the reality—of a pre-emptive strike to safeguard the interests of the Free World. Aware of the dangers ahead, Churchill believed that the U.S.—while it still had a monopoly of atomic power—should require the Soviet Union to abandon the development of these weapons, if need be by threatening their use.
The Truman administration chose not to heed his advice. The result was the Cold War, in the course of which the world—on more than one occasion—came perilously close to a nuclear holocaust.
It is no great surprise that the nations which long toiled under the yoke of communism during the Cold War are our greatest supporters today.
Many have said that the war will create terrorists. But as Churchill says in this article, those we have freed from tyranny in the past, have become our friends and allies. By freeing the Iraqi people from a dictator who everyone agrees is a murderous tyrant, we may earn the friendship of millions, and a powerful ally.
