September 2013 - Richard M. Langworth

Syria: Stop the Churchill Comparisons!

10 September 2013 Comments 0 Comments

Mr. Brent Budowski adds to the long list of Churchill comparisons over the Syria tragedy by comparing President Obama to Sir Winston (The Hill, September 13th). Senators Ted Cruz (R., Tex.), and Rand Paul (R., Ky.), and Rep. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.) “literally offer no policy and no ideas about how to stop the slaughter of innocent people with chemical weapons.”

Obama by contrast “has made the hard call and proposed the strong action that would take a real stand and make a real difference.” Just like Churchill in the 1930s, “when the Spanish fascists with support from Hitler and Mussolini began their attacks against the Republican government of Spain.”…

Churchill-Syria Analogies: A “Syrious” Situation

8 September 2013 Comments 0 Comments

Interesting Churchill-Syria hits on Google Alerts for September 8th:

Will Durst, in “Pied Piper of the Potomac” (Summit Daily):

Everyone pretends not to be knee-deep in the icky, tricky, sticky Syria situation. You might say Washington is in a Semi-Syrious mode right now. And a Semi-Not-So-Syrious mode. Simultaneously. Because this whole affair is riddled with enigmas and mysteries enough to make Winston Churchill spin his conundrums right off. And rumor has it, he harbored huge conundrums.

He has that right. I don’t know if Will Durst is a Churchillian, but he certainly has Churchill’s knack for coining words.…