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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Neocon who wrote (122139)12/27/2003 4:54:38 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi Neocon; Re: "Germany was a shambles. Do you have any figures whatsoever to support your assertion about the superiority of its "industrial capacity"?"

Your inability to understand the power of Germany in 1936 is matched by your inability to understand the power of Iraq in 2003. An invasion and occupation of Germany in 1936 would have led to a bloody guerilla war that would have eventually forced the British and French to withdraw. In 1945, Germany had lost enough people that the occupation was peaceful.

The mistake you're making, to think that the power of a nation is in its military, was the same one that the Japanese military made when they convinced themselves that they could defeat the US with a quick attack. No, the fact is that even if the Japanese had occupied Washington DC, a guerilla war would have broken out against them and eventually thrown them into the sea.

Big nations are not easily defeated with short unbloody wars. And as far as "industrial capacity", the figures are all over the web, you need only look for them.

-- Carl
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