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To: Bilow who wrote (36798)	8/10/2002 3:51:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Carl, you do have this weird fixation on death figures. That's not what matters. What matters is, did the war realign the political system and great power balance of power in some way that better approximated the new reality, and that had some on-going stability? If it didn't, then it wasn't an efficacious great powers war. If it did, it was, regardless of whether the death total was low, as in the 18th century wars, or high as in the Napoleanic and 20th century wars. Since the Franco-Prussian war established the unified German Empire, the Third French Republic, and the unification of Italy, and set the basis for over forty years of peace in Europe, you can certainly argue that it was a much more successful great powers war than WWI, especially because it cost so many fewer casualties.