A inevitabilidade da guerra

Five Minutes to Midnight

The War Is Coming, No Matter How Hard We Try to Evade It

by Robert Tracinski

(...) Observing the events of today-the hesitation and uncertainty, the stubbornclinging to the fantasy that the enemy can be appeased if we just keep talkingand find the right diplomatic solution-I now feel that, for the first time, Ireally understand the leaders of the 1930s. Their illusion that Hitler could beappeased has always seemed, in historical hindsight, to be such a willfulevasion of the facts that I have never grasped how it was possible for those mento deceive themselves. But I can now see how they clung to their evasionsbecause they could not imagine anything worse than a return to the massslaughter of the First World War. They wanted to believe that something,anything could prevent a return to war. What they refused to imagine is that, intrying to avoid the horrors of the previous war, they were allowing Hitler tounleash the much greater horrors of a new war. (...)