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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (20667)3/22/2003 3:30:30 PM
From: Ed Ajootian  Read Replies (1) of 206195
 
OT: Obviously my speculation wasn't meant to be a realistic one -- shoulda clarified that I guess. Folks didn't think that way then (and as you say the geopolitical landscape was different) -- but I guess I'm saying, what if they did?

Re: Japan, I always thought the only reason they tried to do what they did is because they saw how much success Hitler was having, and had he been stopped earlier (or hadn't done what he did at all) they would never have had the guts to go for it.

2 times now in the past 50 years we have created an enemy when we went to contain their aggression against their neighbor -- North Korea in the 50's and Iraq in the '90's. In each case we undid their aggression but went no further, but then created an arch-enemy that hated our guts from then on, in North Korea's case even into the next generation. Query whether that sort of policy is ever possible any more, or will we instead now always have to just decide to either: 1) Let them do what they wanna do or 2) get rid of them all together?

OTOH, the Germans and Japs seem to not harbor any grudges against us, even though we bombed the hell outta their civilians (it was called "strategic bombing"!). It would be interesting to see someone try to do what we did at Dresden today with CNN filming it (firebombed the whole city).
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