“To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How many more corpses are necessary before this country should take action?”

—  Leonard Peikoff

Fifty Years of Appeasement Led to Black Tuesday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/547068/posts?page=152 (12 September 2001)
2000s

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