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that has brought disaster to many a people.
Mid 1945, Hitler "stayed the course", much to the despair if the German people. Long after any chance of negotiated cessation of hostilities could have a part of the equation, Hitler's policy ended up with untold 10's of thousands of civilians being killed, raped, injured and the country was left a smoldering mass of horror.
1916-1918, by keeping to the 'StC' mentality, millions died for virtually no gain. It also set the stage for the coming conflict in Europe in 1939.
In the Pacific Theater, long after the Japanese lost all hope of attaining ANY of their goals, Tojo's notion of 'StC' led directly to the nuclear holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact, Nagasaki in particular, was avoidable. Tojo had convinced the War Cabinet, and the Emperor that America could "not possibly have another one of those things ready to deploy". 3 days after Hiroshima, the Japanese received the horror of a second nuclear attack. At THAT point, it would have taken the US a while to produce another nuke. Hundreds of thousands were vaporized, because an idiot would not face the reality that his country "chosen poorly", when they began taking a road to war.
Our intervention in SE Asia, led to a 13 year conflagration that has yet to be resolved for much of the nation.
On the other hand, I believe that the movie, "The Patriot", with the Mel Gibson character being a shining example of patriotism during the Revolution, has a lot more to do with bush coming up the "stay the Course" mantra, than anything else.
A serious lack of realistic perceptions of the world run rampant through this administration. By "Staying the Course" this administration has set, we will return to the late 19th century, The Gilded Age"; we don't want to go there. We are fresh out of Teddy Roosevelt's to get us back on a decent "Course".
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