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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (67304)	11/20/2002 11:56:09 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

How do you know?.. This is also something I do not understand. How does ANYONE KNOW, proclaim to KNOW what would have happened if we would not have entered WWII.. THERE is unlimited, INFINITE possibilities for EVERY CHOICE we make.. And nobody I KNOW, here or in 3D, MYSELF included know the outcome of the choices that could have been made, now or at the time.. By an individual or a society. I guess that is what separates a Fuskie from a Coug.. The former is tied down and hidebound by conventional thinking.. The latter is a clear thinking, free spirit.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (67304)	11/21/2002 12:14:12 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

That's ONE good war. There haven't been many others. WWI? Not hardly. The Boer war? Probably not. The Spanish American war? No. The Korean War? Ugh. Vietnam? Surely not. The Civil War? That's a tough one to call. Slavery ended in many places without civil war. So I don't think we can call it a "good" war just because of that. The Revolutionary war? Unnecessary. Canada and Australia are pretty nice places. Of course maybe they wouldn't be if the good old USA wasn't around, OR maybe everything would be better. WWII- one war that made sense.