As old as the Sibylline Books
by BeijingIrish (2024-02-14 10:15:52)
Edited on 2024-02-14 10:51:27
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Winston Churchill in a speech to Parliament (May 2, 1935) on Britain’s failed policies toward Germany: “When the situation was manageable, it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand, we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the Sibylline Books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience, and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

Slava Ukraini? Nope, just another failed moment. Instead of fulfilling our role as the leader of the Free World, we slouch away, content to wallow in our decadence.

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