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Sun Oct-03-10 02:12 PM
Response to Reply #82 |
| 87. Is that you, Neville Chamberlain? I thought you were dead! |
| -I had a college professor ask my class if WW2 was worth it... |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 10:27 PM |
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Since the axis powers were expanding by conquest, there wouldn't |
SharonAnn |
Oct-01-10 10:30 PM |
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Exactly... |
hlthe2b |
Oct-01-10 10:32 PM |
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Germany couldn't have invaded.... |
Bigmack |
Oct-01-10 11:57 PM |
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Germany, Italy, Japan... had they not met the resistance that they did |
hlthe2b |
Oct-02-10 12:13 AM |
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Japan was even less likely to invade us... |
Bigmack |
Oct-02-10 12:33 AM |
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Let's stay real |
hlthe2b |
Oct-02-10 07:18 AM |
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Ahem. Please define 'us'. |
mahina |
Oct-02-10 09:53 AM |
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Nope, it would be.. |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 01:43 PM |
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Not when they ran out of resources to fight their wars... |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 01:41 PM |
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the time to fix it through negotiation ended when World War I started |
yurbud |
Oct-03-10 01:53 PM |
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I think bringing up people who don't commit violence against ones with different |
harun |
Oct-01-10 10:34 PM |
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? Rereading my post, I think it to be not well thought. |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 10:36 PM |
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sorry, but once "you have your land" yer gonna want someone else's nt |
msongs |
Oct-01-10 10:37 PM |
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well, alas, that is human nature, isn't it? nt |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 10:45 PM |
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Well, if it's "human nature," then the question of "was it worth it?" becomes superfluous. |
Orrex |
Oct-01-10 10:50 PM |
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We're talking about whatever is relevant. It's a big subject. |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 10:53 PM |
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If it were human nature, all humans - no matter their culture - would behave that way. nt |
greyl |
Oct-02-10 02:25 AM |
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No, it isn't. |
Radical Activist |
Oct-02-10 12:47 PM |
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+1 Psychopaths seem to always end up running the show. nt |
phasma ex machina |
Oct-02-10 02:41 PM |
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NO! It is not! |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 01:45 PM |
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70 million died to save untold tens of millions from being |
WestSeattle2 |
Oct-01-10 10:38 PM |
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You really think that those who would have followed Hitler and Mussolini |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 01:56 PM |
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Have you ever looked at Germany's plans for Eastern Europe? |
hack89 |
Oct-03-10 02:08 PM |
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Is that you, Neville Chamberlain? I thought you were dead! |
Rabrrrrrr |
Oct-03-10 02:12 PM |
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ITA with SharonAnn. Besides, once upon a time, the world was segregated |
lunamagica |
Oct-01-10 10:41 PM |
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The whole "large and few nations" |
the redcoat |
Oct-01-10 10:46 PM |
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I had a friend once who used to sarcastically say |
rrneck |
Oct-01-10 10:48 PM |
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You just described the last 10K to 14K years of history |
nadinbrzezinski |
Oct-01-10 10:52 PM |
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The Nazis would have conquered America by force, then Final Solutioned us. |
krispos42 |
Oct-01-10 10:52 PM |
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Can't see it..... |
Bigmack |
Oct-02-10 12:11 AM |
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Actually more plausible than you think |
MadHound |
Oct-02-10 09:05 AM |
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And this is it, the Messerschmidt Me 264: |
Aristus |
Oct-02-10 12:13 PM |
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Tactically, once they lost in Russia |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 02:00 PM |
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If we hadn't gotten involved, Hitler would have defeated Russia and England. |
krispos42 |
Oct-02-10 09:16 AM |
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According to studies made by Northrop aviation within the past |
COLGATE4 |
Oct-02-10 09:50 AM |
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COLGATE4 |
Diclotican |
Oct-02-10 03:44 PM |
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pure bullshit |
datasuspect |
Oct-02-10 01:45 AM |
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No, but they did have the industrial capacity of Europe |
MadHound |
Oct-02-10 09:07 AM |
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Nazi's wanted to go east, not west. nt. |
phasma ex machina |
Oct-02-10 02:44 PM |
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Invading North American would have been / is impossible for so many reasons. |
Dash87 |
Oct-02-10 02:58 PM |
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I don't think it matters. |
SmileyRose |
Oct-01-10 10:54 PM |
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+1 |
leftstreet |
Oct-01-10 10:55 PM |
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You are making the assumption that belief systems cause conflicts |
RandomThoughts |
Oct-01-10 10:54 PM |
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Isn't it? Is our meddling in the ME not analogous to the Crusades? |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 11:36 PM |
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It's more analogous to the British Empire to me. nt |
phasma ex machina |
Oct-02-10 02:40 PM |
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Let me recommend a brilliant book on this |
nadinbrzezinski |
Oct-01-10 10:55 PM |
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A problem is is everyone in one of those sectors really wanting to be there? |
uppityperson |
Oct-01-10 10:56 PM |
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I have been with WWII Vets who said no, it wasn't worth it. |
annm4peace |
Oct-01-10 11:08 PM |
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Hitler would have agreed with you and all he wanted was his |
grantcart |
Oct-01-10 11:11 PM |
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I really don't appreciate that you would couple me with hitler. There's no need for that. |
Skip Intro |
Oct-01-10 11:20 PM |
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If you are accepting Hitler's rationale then it is you that is coupling yourself |
grantcart |
Oct-02-10 01:22 AM |
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It was just a question. Was not a call to abolish. A question. I do not couple myself with hitler, |
Skip Intro |
Oct-02-10 02:39 AM |
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Anglo strategy involved waiting for Germany's and Russia's armies to decimate each other. |
phasma ex machina |
Oct-02-10 02:29 PM |
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The earth is no longer viably segregated. |
HuckleB |
Oct-01-10 11:12 PM |
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If you're meaning for the United States, then |
Yupster |
Oct-01-10 11:59 PM |
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And there is the equation of how many more would have died in the death camps, no? |
HuckleB |
Oct-02-10 12:13 AM |
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How do you create that isolation? |
Ozymanithrax |
Oct-02-10 12:02 AM |
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I'm assuming was it worth it meaning loss of life to stop Hitler... |
Zax2me |
Oct-02-10 12:09 AM |
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The problem with WWII is WWI: the former was a direct result of the latter. |
apocalypsehow |
Oct-02-10 12:28 AM |
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The notion of "WWI (1914-1945)" has been growing on me lately |
Posteritatis |
Oct-02-10 01:31 AM |
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We don't break the Hundred Years War into pieces either. |
donco6 |
Oct-02-10 09:42 AM |
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Or the Thirty Years' War for that matter |
Posteritatis |
Oct-02-10 11:54 AM |
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True. Exactly. n/t |
donco6 |
Oct-03-10 01:34 PM |
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"because England decided it didn't want to compete with Germany on the High Seas"? |
muriel_volestrangler |
Oct-02-10 09:06 AM |
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I can agree with that |
Gaedel |
Oct-02-10 09:38 AM |
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Ah yes, of course, WWII was all our fault then |
WolverineDG |
Oct-02-10 12:07 PM |
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Did I say that? |
Gaedel |
Oct-02-10 02:19 PM |
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The Nazis came to power because of war reparations demanded by the Allies |
WolverineDG |
Oct-02-10 02:30 PM |
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Reparations |
Gaedel |
Oct-02-10 03:28 PM |
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Angloism trumps nationalism every time. Bet on it. nt |
phasma ex machina |
Oct-02-10 02:49 PM |
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The problem is that the German revolution of 1918 was completely crushed, despite a very fine start |
struggle4progress |
Oct-02-10 03:12 PM |
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You will always have the boundary crossers |
ismnotwasm |
Oct-02-10 12:29 AM |
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"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." -- MLK |
HuckleB |
Oct-02-10 01:24 AM |
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Yes it was. |
proteus_lives |
Oct-02-10 01:48 AM |
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So you take all the Africans and people of African descent and you put them in Africa |
XemaSab |
Oct-02-10 02:19 AM |
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It's good to ask these questions |
Sherman A1 |
Oct-02-10 02:47 AM |
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If the US hadn't intervened . . . |
DeltaLitProf |
Oct-02-10 03:19 AM |
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In effect, WWII was the enforcement of a certain level of segregation. |
aikoaiko |
Oct-02-10 05:38 AM |
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Nobody in their right mind wanted WWII. But the Nazis wanted it: they intended |
struggle4progress |
Oct-02-10 08:42 AM |
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maybe they would have-- |
yellowwood |
Oct-02-10 09:25 AM |
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WWII Was The Last Truly Justified War This Country Was Involved In. |
Paladin |
Oct-02-10 08:58 AM |
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You are perpatrating the worst sin... |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 02:03 PM |
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WWWCS? |
slackmaster |
Oct-02-10 09:41 AM |
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U.S.A. still would have built nuclear weapons fearing Germany was doing the same. |
hunter |
Oct-02-10 09:55 AM |
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the more important question is, did OUR involvment mean anything |
mkultra |
Oct-02-10 02:32 PM |
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humans need to have or steal what others have. |
spanone |
Oct-03-10 01:36 PM |
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WRONG |
ProudDad |
Oct-03-10 02:06 PM |
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