Hi bland,
Re: Let's have a 'sensitive' war
Culture & Ideas 11/12/01 BY JOHN LEO
By late 1942, after Adolf Hitler had invaded most of the nations of Europe, relentlessly bombed England, and declared war on the United States, the vexing question naturally arose: What's better, to fight back or to sit down and study the root causes of Germany's behavior?
What an incredible bunch of nonsense. Your comment and the article. The proximate cause of the Teutonic anger that erupted into the National Socialist movement and all that followed was the insane negotiations at Versailles that imposed such onerous reparations demands on Germany that the economy there was ruined, during the Weimar Republic days, with the most virulent hyperinflation a modern European nation has ever experienced. The embittered Germans struck back. A revenge not unlike we witnessed on 9/11.
I find your snide comment and the article both to be highly disingenuous and remarkably wrong-headed. A bit of "sensitivity" on the part of the meat-heads in Washington and New York may well have averted the catastrophe of 9/11. We weren't struck because, as George Bush would have the naive believe, that we are angels out to protect "democracy and freedom". That wasn't what the greatest symbols of American hegemon and militarism were struck for, now was it?
You, sir, can be bland. And I can be blunt.
R. |
