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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KyrosL who wrote (75433)10/7/2004 11:49:36 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793954
 
I don't think the analogy is a good one. Britain was attacked by the then world's only military superpower and was fighting for its life. It had no choise but to fight, alone or not.

Quite untrue, check your history! Britain declared war because Hitler attacked Poland, not Britain. It only came under attack after it declared war, well after. If Britain had said, no skin off our nose, as they had for Czechoslovakia the year before, they could have avoided the war. Hitler always thought well of Britain and would have been open to some negotitated client state arrangement.

Now, you could have argued in 1940 that Britain and France actually helped the Nazi cause by giving them the war they desired. Open war will always bring both sides to the fore with more clamor and bloodshed than a papered-over peace. But the Nazis weren't exactly strenghthened in the end, were they?
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