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To: FaultLine who started this subject	6/28/2003 8:18:48 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (4) of 281500

If it were the thirties, we would have had an earful on the dubious numbers of Mr. Churchill, the wisdom of Neville Chameberlain, and the stupidity of triggering a war to save Poland. As events progressed, the humiliation at Dunkirk would be gloated over to prove that war was a stupid idea; the Blitz would be adduced to demonstrate the futility of opposing Hitler; and Lend- Lease would be denounced as an obvious strategem to permit the UK and Soviet Union to hold on until we entered the war. Anything questionable, like the firebombing of Dresden, would be touted to show that we were morally bankrupt, and had no stature to oppose Hitler. Events like the Bataan Death march would be "contextualized"----- if we had not violated neutrality, we would not have been at war with Japan, and therefore we caused the suffering of our own servicemen, the Japanese should not be blamed for barbarity. By the time we were winning, the war in the Pacific would be denounced as a last ditch effort to support colonialism, and the war in Europe would be denounced as a war we had been pushed into to save the Jews.

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