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To: LindyBill who wrote (127084)	7/24/2005 2:31:54 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 793838

But that would not have been a preemptive situation. He would have been responding to Hitler's threat Isn't a preemptive situation acting on a threat before it comes to fruition? If Britain would have backed France and sent troops into the Rhineland, Hitler would've been stared down before he could act. The years leading up to WWII are a good example of the kind of collapse in complex embargo and inspection regimes that we see with Iraq. Post-WWI Germany had an arms inspection regime that was probably more extensive than Iraq's. Germany's didn't work either, and the political will to enforce it withered away. Like Churchill said, the easiest war to stop. Derek

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