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January 10, 2016

"We won the war in a military sense,

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but in a broader sense it seems to me we lost it,
for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. In order to defeat Germany and Japan we supported the still greater menaces of Russia and China, which now confront us in a nuclear-weapon era. Poland was not saved. Much of our Western culture was destroyed. We lost the genetic heredity formed through aeons in many million lives. It is alarmingly possible that World War II marks the beginning of our Western civilization’s breakdown, as it already marks the breakdown of the greatest empire ever built by man." — Charles Lindbergh

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 10, 2016 8:35 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Nasty of him to say that. Must have upset the Left to no end.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 11, 2016 2:35 AM

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