I dreamt a news story

I was reading this "Hegel"-ian nightmare, and it plunged me into a time travel dream about WWII press coverage:

A leading member of the Democratic party said the war in the Pacific is looking more like the Thirty Years War from a few hundred years ago. Cali-braska Sen. Chuck Baxer, who has actually seen blood once, reaffirmed his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to get out of the Pacific. "Stay the course is not a policy," said Baxer, a possible White House contender in 1944. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in the Pacific ... we're not winning. We've had soldiers, sailors, even marines dying out there. The Japanese have been dying too. And we haven't even gotten onto land in the European theatre. This War is a boondoggle, no matter how you look at it." Sen. Ralph Alan, however, another possible Democratic candidate in the 1944 race, said that promising freedom for the people strangling under totalitarian fascist regimes would provide a rallying point for resistance fights eager to make common cause with the Allied forces. For example, rumor has it that underground leaders in Berlin have been working to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. There have also been rumors that enslaved citizens in Warsaw took to the streets wearing yellow stars. After fierce fighting during which the occupying Nazis sustained tremendous casualities, the freedom-seeking citizens were brutally slaughtered and survivors deported. Reaction from the surrounding Polish population was muted. Alan reiterated: "The Nazis and the Japanese don't have anything to win the hearts and minds of the people of the world. All they care to do is disrupt." Baxer, however, responded that it simply wasn't enough to deploy troops against the Japanese and the Nazis. "We're past that stage now because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where the world was during the Thirty Years War," Baxer said. "The longer we stay, the more problems we're going to have. You know, I've said it before and I've said it again, some of our soldiers -- who are all someone's children -- are getting hurt out there. "And for what? It's been years since the Japanese attacked us on our own territory, and now we're just getting bogged down in a battle on theirs. Not to mention the fact that we haven't even touched land in Europe yet. This is just a waste of time, lives and money. I'm sure that, if we let the Japanese and the Nazis know that we intend to withdraw in six months, they'll take the heat off our military and return to the negotiating table. "What I think the White House does not yet understand — and some of my colleagues — the dam has broke on this policy," Baxer said. "The longer we stay there, the more of our soldiers -- all of whom are somebody's children -- are going to die, making this similar to other wars, in all of which someone has lost."

What our time traveling politicians and Demo flakes do not understand is that the best analogy for this war is WWII, not Vietnam. Then, we were attacked on our own soil by a belligerent force. And while Japan just wanted control over its own corner of the world, our other enemy in that world, the Nazis, dreamt of world domination that would subject every country to totalitarian control; that would stifle all dissent; and that would treat as slaves or would slaughter (brutally) those deemed second-class citizens. Now, we were attacked on our own soil by a belligerent force. And it's a force that dreams of world domination, that would subject every country to totalitarian control; that would stifle all dissent; and that would treat as slaves or would slaughter (brutally) those deemed second-class citizens. This war, like WWII, is a binary war -- you win or you lose. And we'd better win, a goal one does not achieve by announcing to the enemy that we promise to pack up our gear and go home by a specific date. UPDATE: Here's Power Line pointing out what I didn't know: that, contrary to the AP's representations, Hegel's record establishes that he is anything but a prominent Republican, nor have any Republicans to date considered him a viable Presidential candidate.