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To: Solon who wrote (5785)3/10/2003 8:02:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 7689
 
even an imperfect process is preferable to outright aggression.
Is it? Suppose France had crossed the German border to enforce the Versailles Treaty in 1935. You could, if you wished, call that "outright aggression". Or you could call it enforcement of a treaty Germany signed.

Now Hitler was fairly new in 1935. Had he been called at that point, his gov't may very well have been overthrown.

Would that be bad?

Your presumption is that inaction is ALWAYS preferable to action as long as hot air is being exhaled. Let me give you another counterexample: Washington, DC, December 1941. While US diplomats were talking to Japanese diplomats, Japanese carriers were sailing for the Hawaiian Islands. And a nation that had no wish for war, that was strongly isolationist, was about to be strongly jerked into the worst conflict yet.

Tell me again about how good talk is. I keep forgetting.
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