Our Enemies’ Words by Jed Babbin

Churchill wrote and spoke much of World War Two, but one conclusion he reached about that war should be on every American’s mind today: "There never was a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action." None of us is his equal, but we all must try to understand the lessons he taught, and to apply them as well as we can.

Americans are great talkers, but too often we don’t listen very well. And what we do hear, we often mistake because we tend to see our adversaries in the same terms we see ourselves. When some dictator threatens to end our way of life, to destroy our economy or end our influence over his nation we characteristically either ignore him or rationalize his statements in our own context rather than judging them in his. He can’t be evil, can he? He and his people will only act in their enlightened self interest, won’t they? But he can be, and they may not.

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