If we’re open to learning, we can glean a lot from the Orlando Massacre. Here are 7 of the most crucial lessons.,7 crucial lessons we need to learn from the Orlando Massacre ,If the Western world had fought Nazi Germany with the same mental fogginess and cowardice it uses to engage with the perpetrators of Islamic terror, World War II might have ended differently — or might not have ended at all.
Bound by today’s politically correct rules of warfare Winston Churchill’s indiscriminate bombing of Berlin would have been verboten. Instead Britain would have exercised restraint to avoid collateral damage to innocent Germans.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have shelved Proclamations 2525 2526 and 2527 that authorized the detention of some 31000 security risks among German Italian and Japanese aliens living throughout the US.
And certainly Harry Truman would have faced trial for the collective punishment by atom bomb of the 200000 innocent residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Whatever their personal foibles — and they all possessed their share — Churchill Roosevelt and Truman understood that clarity of purpose and the use of overwhelming military force were required to achieve their political goals in order to prevail over a ruthless and ideologically driven enemy.
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