22-Jan: Today in History

January 22, 2007 · Filed Under todayinhistory

A twofer on the 22nd…

January 22, 1917 - President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for â€œpeace without victory.” (By April, however, America also was at war.)

January 22, 1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.

WDTM? Wilson was an idealistic, weak leader. To most important ways of evaluating his Presidency, he was a failure. Then again, statements of idiocy like “peace without victory” (which pretty much also means “peace without defeat of the non-peaceful evildoer”), or the WWII equivalent of “Peace in our time“, are rightfully doomed to failure and ridicule. The Kingdom of the Left is justified in exercising its God-given power in order to keep order & punish evildoers. Thankfully, the American leaders of WWII better understood this (hence, the acknowledgment of the landing at Anzio…).

[Note: WDTM? = "What does this mean?" --- a fitting Lutheran question that I've appropriated as a statement to replace "I Say:" & "Comment:"...]

-ghp

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