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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (53359)	7/22/2002 10:06:51 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The Nazis didn't question orders either. No Axis power grunts or non-coms were ever accused of being war criminals. Only high-ranking officers. That is how it should be, and must be. There is a big difference between illegal orders and stupid ones. I'm not sure you would make a good commander-in-chief. <ggg>

To: epicure who wrote (53359)	7/22/2002 1:46:21 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The Nazis didn't question orders either. I think I would rather have men who think, than men who don't. Thinking and questioning orders under fire are two totally different things. We have no reason to think that the Nazi soldiers didn't think. In fact, they were quite brilliant tacticians and stratetists who were defeated primarily by the stupidity of Hitler (failing to follow up with an invasion of Britain after Dunkirk, and then the invasion of Russia), and the stupidity of Japan in provoking the US into the war. But there is every reason to think that the Nazi military thought and thought quite well. As to questioning orders, as I pointed out in an earlier post, if every soldier, sailor, etc. fighting on the Allied side in WWII had questioned their orders and wanted to make sure they made sense to the individual on the ground before they were willing to go into battle, we might well be speaking German today.