Winston Churchill predicted the future -- many times


By James Humes
Published November 30, 2012
FoxNews.com




June 24, 1952: Sir Winston Churchill smiles at the front door of 10 Downing Street, London. (AP)



November 30, 1874 is the birthdate of the greatest statesman in history. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan deemed him so. Just his indomitable leadership in World War II rallying a beleaguered Britain to triumph over Nazi tyranny would alone earn him this unique distinction.

But the world is not aware that Churchill was a modern Nostradamus in his prophetic wisdom. Among other things, he predicted two World Wars and the Cold War. Even today’s headlines are the stuff of predictions he made close to a century ago. In 1905, he foresaw the creation of the Israeli State. Churchill was the first non-Jewish Zionist. Twelve years before the Balfour Declaration, in 1917, Churchill called for a Jewish State. It was not as if he represented New York’s Lower East Side or Miami populated by Jews.

Then in 1921, in a speech to the House of Commons, he spoke of a militant Islam sect, the Wahabis, more violent than any in history, which would kill their own sisters for wearing the wrong attire. These fierce zealots would terrorize the West with bomb-carrying Jihadists who would burn embassies and destroy buildings by their passion to sacrifice their lives for guarantee of Islam heaven. Winston Churchill II would read his grandfather’s speech to President George W. Bush in the White House in 2007. If Churchill didn’t exactly predict 9/11, he described its radical extremist perpetrators.

President Nixon once told me that Churchill was the only leader who seemed to have a crystal ball. He had “the mind of an historian and courage of a soldier.” A scholar of history, he could see patterns replicating themselves. Like a soldier, Churchill would risk political death by telling the people what they didn’t want to hear. Spineless politicians or cover-your-*** bureaucrats will never state the ugly truths. Churchill, however, didn’t worry about repercussions. He didn’t talk in euphemisms or evasions. He delivered the unvarnished facts.




The world is not aware that Churchill was a modern Nostradamus in his prophetic wisdom.

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The English did not want to hear, after the decimation of a whole generation in World War I, the need to arm for another war threat by the Germans in the 1930’s.

A decade later, Americans and British turned deaf ears to Churchill’s warning that their recent ally, the Soviet Union threatened the democracies of Europe. Even The Wall Street Journal—no left-wing newspaper—denounced Churchill’s Iron Curtain Address. Eleanor Roosevelt called Churchill a “war monger.”

In that same year, 1946, Churchill told Europeans gathering in an assembly in Zurich that Germany, whose armies had only recently devastated their countries, had to be welcomed back into its community for the future prosperity of Europe. Boos accompanied his unwelcome message. The Europeans were appalled that their World War II hero would suggest such an idea.

For those who ask what relevance Churchill’s predictions have to today’s world, they should keep in mind that he predicted the Energy Crisis in 1929. He warned that the West needed new sources of fuel to escape from being beholden to the oil oligarchies of the Middle East. And then in 1957, this writer heard Churchill state that the U.N. was a feckless organization, maimed by a congenital deformity—the Soviet veto— and that it was increasingly dominated by one-party autocratic states. One only has to note President Calderon who stuffs ballot boxes and jails dissidents in Columbia while his country serves on the U.N. Human Rights Commission; or even worse, President Assad of Syria who is slaughtering thousands of his citizens while his country joins Columbia on that Human Rights Commission that is attacking the U.S. for, among other things, using capital punishment and the many African-Americans serving in prison.

On his 138th birthday, the world should not only recognize Churchill’s championship of freedom, but also study his many predictions that still endanger our liberties and freedoms.



James C. Humes , a former White House speechwriter, is the author of the new book, Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012.


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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -- Winston Churchill

When I was young, Churchill was one of my heroes. Since really delving into the history of his life, I've determined that Eleanor Roosevelt was right about him. He was a warmonger. He is now one of the world's great villains in my books. I do however give him credit for his utter brilliance at geopolitical maneuvering.

Winston Churchill Quote : “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

Now this is one motivational quote that calls you to action. Everyone has a destiny to fulfill.
But whether that destiny involves success or failure is determined by your choices.

Churchill was never one to play the victim.
Instead, he took full responsibility for his life and his actions.
If you want to make something of yourself, you’re going to have to go out there and do it.
No one is going to help you achieve your goals unless you help yourself.



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Churchill was a strong leader and great person just when England needed one.

We need more leaders like Churchill was..he was a great man.

Some of his greatest strength was to be able to tell the truth and get away with it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xPR69tBYyWkC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=churchill+wahabis&source=bl&ots=gSdek31Mf3&sig=47c4Vu2tfgfUMJzjCRDFnHgxSdc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KK-8UPSFJNHW0gGEk4DIDw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=churchill%20wahabis&f=false

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
By Winston S. Churchill

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You can't really put Churchill in perspective without Eisenhower. And when it comes to predicting the future, no one did it better than Eisenhower in his farewell address to the Nation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gahL5j4ack

The meaning of this speech and how it has described the changes that have occurred in America is worthy of a thread in it's own right. But sadly, most don't understand the changes that occurred.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/churchillwinston/a/Iron-Curtain.htm

Nine months after Sir Winston Churchill failed to be reelected as Britain's Prime Minister, Churchill traveled by train with President Harry Truman to make a speech. On March 5, 1946, at the request of Westminster College in the small Missouri town of Fulton (population of 7,000), Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000. In addition to accepting an honorary degree from the college, Churchill made one of his most famous post-war speeches.

In this speech, Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Before this speech.....more