Commentry by Christopher Lehman Christopher M. Lehman served as a special assistant for national security affairs to President Reagan from 1983-1985.
Pundits often say that history repeats itself, and sadly they are right.
Churchill loathed and despised Hitler, and time after time he sought to warn the British government of the danger of Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Today, the United States is in a position much like that of Britain and France in the 1930s. The public doesn't want to know about dangers. After all, the Cold War is over, and the Soviet Union has gone to the ash heap of history. Prosperity is all about us, and according to the Clinton administration, the United States has the best military force in history.