KyrosL,
You should brush up on your history before moving your fingers, the topic you are debating has life and death consequences for many people in the decades ahead so you owe it to all to at least understand the historical facts before spinning.
On the subject of Britain and Germany, your facts are plainly confused. By no means was Germany's true military strength known or understood by either France or Germany. In fact, Neville Chamberlain, GB's Prime minister of the time, sought to appease Germany by giving way because he genuinely felt that Europe had mistreated them in WW1 and that Germany's aspirations was the right thing to do. This appeasement was not done out of fear, but out of a genuine feeling that Hitler's beef was legitimate.
This is the "they hate us, so we must be evil" train of thought that permeates liberal and anti-war discourse today.
Churchill and other agitators were seen as war-hawk rebels hell-bent on warfare by much of the public, and their warnings fell on deaf ears for much of the '30s.
Take the Munich Agreement to let Germany control a chunk of Checkovslovakia, done not out of fear, but out of genuine feeling that War is an evil and must be avoided at all cost, and an honest but naive belief that Hitler's appetite will be assuaged if he sees how genuine the world feels about his aspirations.
Many historians have agreed that Germany had not had the capitulation of the Munich agreement, if they had met with united stiff resistance early on before world war became the only option, the tens of millions of deaths should not have occured. In fact, if the worldwide response to Kristallnacht on nov 9 of 1938 had been more severe and united, would Goebbels have had as much nerve to do what they did next?
Here's some sobering statistics of what happened in the past.
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Most of these deaths were consequences born out of a genuine intention to do good, to avoid war at all cost, and the facts are laid bare for all to study and understand.
The fact is, I will say this again about the extreme islamic jihadists : They don't hate us because we are evil. They hate us because we stand in their way. |
