Ever since the satanic days of Oct. 7 and Oct. 8, when Hamas organized murderers raped, tortured, butchered, and tormented 1400 Israeli civilians, and Israel began — just “began” — to fight back, I have been besieged by questioners who knew of my close relationship to Richard Nixon. They all want to know the answers to a simple question: What would Nixon do?
I can give some simple answers:
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1. Nixon was a historian. He would go back to the days when Hitler began to attempt to terrorize Britain with round-the-clock bombing of civilian areas of the United Kingdom. Quite early in the evil Nazi campaign, Winston Churchill, PM of the U.K., was asked how he would reply to a German attempt to have a “peace” agreement with the Nazis whereby both the Brits and the Nazis stopped all bombing.
Churchill had a simple answer: We will stop bombing the Reich when we have bombed every square inch equal to what Hitler bombed of Britain. “We will stop when we have bombed and re-bombed, and bombed to ruins every home, every factory, every shipyard, every hospital that the Nazis bombed. And we will never stop until every wicked square inch of Hitler’s domain is rubble.” This is not a precise quote, but it is close enough.
And Churchill made good on his promise. He bombed Germany and its allies until there were nothing but piles of desiccated skeletons from Hamburg to Dresden. And when there were complaints about excess brutality, WC said that was how wars were won. His head of the Bomber Command, “Bomber” Harris, echoed these words until there was no more Reich and no more Führer.
2. When the accuracy and power of Nazi anti-aircraft fire made the RAF airplanes fly so high that inevitably German civilian areas were incinerated, Harris said that his proposition was simple: if we cannot kill Herr Schickelgruber at his lathe, we will burn down his home, make him homeless, exhausted, and no good as a war worker. The head of Nazi war production, Albert Speer, avowed that it worked. And so the bombing continued.
3. No one in America or the U.K. suggested that the Allies, while Germany was still showering rockets on London, killing hundreds per day, should have a “humanitarian pause” and send in food to keep the Nazis rolling. Again, it worked and when Hitler was just ashes, then and only then did the bombing stop.
This is what Nixon would do. When I, your humble servant, in person asked Mr. Nixon what he would do about the most recalcitrant troublemakers on earth, the Hamas and the Hezbollah, Mr. Nixon said, “There is no answer except to hang ’em all.” This is not a paraphrase.
And now you know.
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