We’re going to take brief glance at some history today and show why it’s relevant. Let’s start with this.
That’s an overview of one company but it’s typical of what American companies were, groups of people who were committed to doing the best job possible and at the least practicable cost. And it’s true, the transistor came out of Bell Labs, and as we should all know, all of today’s technology rides on that on invention. Bell Labs came up with some other things as well that we’ll speak of after the next video.
And that is the other thing that affects us all, every day. Something else that Bell Labs invented (or maybe discovered), is called Boolean Algebra, although originally it was called switching algebra. It is the scientific method of determining how many lines are required for a given number of calls placed at random times. It is another one of the baselines that pervade all digital things, from a rotary dial telephone right on up through the most modern supercomputer, Let’s look at one more of these.
And in large part, as the twentieth century dawned that is how these United States became the United States, as we read of the Philippine insurrection, and determined that long term we had no desire to have an empire,; we already had one, as big as all Europe but nor an empire really, but a republic, which we ourselves had created on foundations gifted us by the English desire to be free, and by our 150 years of colonial self-rule. We recognized as well that the roots of that republic resided in both the north Germanic (including Celtic) warrior heritage and the softer compassionate Christian heritage.
And so we listened and watched as Herr Hitler took Germany back to its pagan medieval roots, and counted our blessings, here with more Poles than there were in Poland. But then we watched as the Empire itself came under attack. Not, that we didn’t feel any compulsion to go out and fight this demon ourselves, we had plenty of problems as well.
And we listened as those few British pilots fought the Hun to a standstill, and we listened to Americans who told about how it was in England in those days. Like this;
And thus the British earned the admiration of Americans by their stolid valor. Murrow was so good that our parents and grandparents felt they were there, you can still feel it all these years later, feel it. America still didn’t see it as our war but the British became the underdog home team that most of our people rooted for. And so, when HR 1776, and I strongly doubt that number was coincidental, allowed us to supply Britain with American military supplies and armaments, it was popular, not least because it would finally end the Great Depression. And so the very first 300 M4 Sherman tanks manufactured would fight at El Alemain.
When those same long lines told us of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a great determination swelled through America, to utterly defeat the Japanese, and when Hitler decided he wanted in on the deal, Uncle Sam was quite happy to include him. Not for nothing did the great half-American Prime Minister say that on December 7th he went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved, because America was in it up to the neck, and that very day had sounded that American trumpet, the one that never calls retreat.
And so the great factories that had lain half used for a decade roared back to life. Almost everything was produced in one color: Olive Drab, and in a short time the effete democracies would teach the supermen how to make war, and 200, 000 Americans would die alongside 200,000 Britons (including the Commonwealth). Still, it was not America’s hardest war, which remained the one 90 years before to save the Union and destroy slavery in which 600,000 American troops died, but it was bad enough that many wondered why we had to fight it. Then one day Edward R. Murrow explained that to us as well.
And now, in the last fortnight, we have been forced back into that nightmare that we thought we ended in April of 1945. Being the ever optimistic Americans, we thought we had bottled up that devil for all time. “Never Again,” we said and yet again those wires tell us of murders so vast that they are, in fact, difficult to believe. But they are real, and in truth we know, that this battle will only end when God calls us all together at a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. May God forgive us all.
Abd so now, an American carrier strike group, more powerful than almost any country in the world, holds the ring waiting for another, as America makes sure that still another underdog, indeed another people of the law, both in Anglo-American terms but also in the place that their founder, Jacob was granted by God himself, have the chance to win their battle as we won the one in Germany.
And remember, we are not hated because of any harm done to any of these people, they hate us because we are God’s people, Christian and Jew alike, and we are free from coercion by them.
The legend of the Round Table is that in Camelot, right makes might, not might making right. That is always a worthwhile goal for free people everywhere.
And for the IDF: Good luck and good hunting.