But all these years later, that photo looks, at best, hopelessly naive. There’s no telling what this world would look like had fascism been left to spread through Europe, but it probably wouldn’t be a place where democracy and freedom remain the ideal (even if both are often elusive). Plenty of people, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had already surmised as much by 1939.
Through the lens of history, we can therefore conclude that Welk, Stanley and their isolationist brethren lacked foresight. They were, as it is said, on the “wrong side of history.” And it is said often.
- History ultimately judges right and wrong, by Josh Noel, ChicagoTribune.com, May 27, 2017.
3. It’s crunch time for the fight against global warming.
And, despite ongoing conflict and uncertainty at the U.N. climate change summit here in Paris, optimism is still running high.
“It’s time to come to an agreement,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is presiding over this process, said in a meeting late Thursday night.
“We must do this, and we can do this,” he added. “I think, dear friends, that we will make it.”
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“If you want to be on the right side of history on climate change you need to stand for some basic principles,” said Jake Schmidt, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “They’re trying to show other countries that there’s a significant group that wants to be in this camp.”
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