Fabulous quote from Winston Churchill, for the interventionist big-government pro-war types:
"America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all of these ‘isms’ wouldn’t today be sweeping the continent and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American and other lives."
It is clear that Churchill is acknowledging in this 1936 quote that it was American interventionism into World War I that laid the groundwork for Hitler's rise and the coming World War II. The big government interventionists have long been using the logic lite analogy of "what would you do about Hitler" in a vain attempt to 'prove' that the anti-war crowd was wrong about this war. It is more than a tad ridiculous to use the consequences of an earlier interventionist escapade to justify another interventionist escapade 60 years later. Of course, history has never been a strong deterrent to those willing to send better men and women to die in their places. The late Prime Minister respectfully disagrees with today's anti-American, big government interventionist hawks, be they liberal, conservative or 'libertarian'.
As such, I expect to never hear that ridiculous Hitler analogy again. I will, of course, be disappointed. There's nothing like illogic to hammer home your point. That, and healthy dose of McCarthyism.